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 — and world ominously narrowed — 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>