{"product_id":"9781609802264","title":"Happening","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.\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003eIn Happening, Ernaux sifts through her memories and her journal entries dating from those days. Clearly, cleanly, she gleans the meanings of her experience.","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151679799536,"sku":"9781609802264","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781609802264_p0.jpg?v=1763837558","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781609802264","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}