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Happening
- By: Annie Ernaux
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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 the child. 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 ended up in a hospital emergency ward where she nearly died. In Happening, Ernaux sifts through her memories and her journal entries dating from those days.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heartbreaking
- By Lynn Thompson on 05-19-23
- Happening
- By: Annie Ernaux
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Hit Home
Reviewed: 12-31-22
Parallels my experience nearly exact .
Only I was in Ohio in the USA, came close to bleeding out. Now women face the same dilemma, sadly.
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