Ernaux, Annie

Summary: "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. In a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self-administer the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ERNAUX, ANNIE ERN

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B ERNAUX ERN