A review by bookwormdaily
Happening by Annie Ernaux

dark

4.0

 
Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people.


very straightforward, realistic and true to human nature. follow the process of the main character trying to have an abortion. in this book, there’s less emotional aspect being included, but near the ending when the climax happens and the mc shows her raw emotion, it hit me on so many levels.

being written like a diary entry, i got the vivid and detailed image of the process and it is very unsettling and uncomfortable to read, but also this factor that makes this book very close to heart. looking back and thinking that this whole experience happened to real people just broke my heart. it awakened something within me and gave me new perspective in life.