{"product_id":"happening-by-annie-ernaux","title":"Happening by Annie Ernaux","description":"In 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. This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 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. In Happening, Ernaux sifts through her memories and her journal entries dating from those days.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Clearly, cleanly, she gleans the meanings of her experience.","brand":"Winding Stair Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47036616802652,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0272\/0691\/0035\/files\/9781804270530.jpg?v=1693496793","url":"https:\/\/winding-stair-bookshop.myshopify.com\/products\/happening-by-annie-ernaux","provider":"Winding Stair Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}