The author recalls her traumatic experience with abortion as a young literature student in the early 1960s--an event that left her hemorrhaging in a Paris dormitory.
In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator att
An extraordinary evocation of a grown daughter’s attachment to her mother, and of both women’s strength and resiliency. "I Remain in Darkness" recounts Annie’s attempts first to help her mother recove
"My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon."Shame begins as the story of a twelve-year-old girl, but it is also about the storyteller, a mature woman, the author her
In Exteriors Ernaux concentrates, not on the essential details of a relationship with a family member or lover as before, but on ephemeral encounters within the larger circle of one's environment and
In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator att
A poignant journal of a woman who cares for dying mother follows the author in the summer of 1983 as she nurses her aging mother through Alzheimer's and physical decline leading to death.
"My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon," begins Shame, the probing story of the twelve-year-old girl who will become the author herself, and the single traumatic
A Woman’s Story is Annie Ernaux’s "deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age, and dreams and reality" (Kirkus Reviews). Upon her mother’s death from Alzheimer’s, Ernaux embarks
Midnight, January 1: time for a big change. Time to make a New Year's resolution to find romance?or else! Say Yes by Christie Ridgway Cautious florist Ashley Walker is excited to embark on her "Year
Annie Ernaux's father died exactly two months after she passed her practical examination for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labor, Ernaux's father
