HappeningBy: Annie Ernaux WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "Happening recounts what it was like to be a young woman whose life changed and world ominously narrowed in 1963 with an unwanted pregnancy. . . . It feels urgently of the moment." The New York Times 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