Happening

<b><b>WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE</b><br><br><i>Happening</i> recounts what it was like to be a young woman whose life changed &#151; and world ominously narrowed &#151; in 1963 with an unwanted pregnancy. . . . It feels urgently of the moment.</b><br><b>--<i>The New York Times</i></b><br><br>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.<br><br>This 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.<br><br>In <i>Happening</i> Ernaux sifts through her memories and her journal entries dating from those days. Clearly cleanly she gleans the meanings of her experience.<br><b><i><br><br><b>Now an award-winning film by Audrey Diwan<br></b>Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival<br>Official Selection of the Sundance Film Festival</i></b>