{"product_id":"happening-9781583222560","title":"Happening","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHappening\u003c\/strong\u003e by Ernaux, Annie. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781583222560.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\nThis 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.\nIn Happening, Ernaux sifts through her memories and her journal entries dating from those days. Clearly, cleanly, she gleans the meanings of her experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45119082594357,"sku":"ByrdShop_1583222561","price":149.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781583222560_4832347d-d236-4031-92b3-473cfdf38c65.jpg?v=1778789977","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/happening-9781583222560","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}