{"product_id":"happening-9781609809485","title":"Happening","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHappening\u003c\/i\u003e recounts what it was like to be a young woman whose life changed -- and world ominously narrowed -- in 1963 with an unwanted pregnancy. . . . It feels urgently of the moment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. In a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self-administer the abortion with a knitting needle. Fearful and desperate, she finally located an abortionist, and ends up in a hospital emergency ward where she nearly dies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHappening\u003c\/i\u003e, Ernaux sifts through her memories and her journal entries dating from those days. Clearly, cleanly, she gleans the meanings of her experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow an award-winning film by Audrey Diwan\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWinner of the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival\u003cbr\u003eOfficial Selection of the Sundance Film Festival\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Seven Stories Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/14\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781609809485\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.40d","brand":"Annie Ernaux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42520603099317,"sku":"9781609809485","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_b5db87ef-e84f-4ce4-b0be-34b59eba669a.jpg?v=1669130239","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/happening-9781609809485","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}