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by H
About This Novel
In 1963, 23-year-old unmarried Anne Ernault discovered she was pregnant. Shame hit her like a plague, she understood that her pregnancy would make her and her family losers in society, and she knew she could not keep the child. Forty years later, Erno wrote this story about a trauma she never overcame. In France, where abortion was illegal at the time, she tried to take matters into her own hands with a knitting needle, but to no avail. In fear and despair, she finally found an underground doctor, but ended up being sent to the hospital emergency room and almost died. In "The Incident", Ernault combs through her memories and clearly and accurately unearths the social significance of this special experience as a woman.
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