Happening by Annie Ernaux

Happening by Annie ErnauxIn 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 abortion with a knitting needle. Fearful and desperate, she

The killer couldn't have escaped Inisrun

He did something terrible

when their own daughters’ storylines intersect

to Penelope awaiting the return of Odysseus

'Written with clarity

this is a kaleidoscopic study of women's history before the Enlightenment changed everything

sexual disruptiveness and bad manners Here are subversive tales - by Ama Ata Aidoo

Mann argues that all is not lost

Michael Segalov

in a beautiful and lonely Italian city The woman moves through the city

It feels like the right book for the right times

listen instead of hear