Getting Lost, by Annie Ernaux

Thanks to Seven Stories Press, English-speaking readers can jump right into the impressive oeuvre of the 2022 Nobel literature prize-winner, Annie Ernaux. In her latest work,Getting Lost, the French writer best known for her autobiographical novels gives us instead the diary she kept during the period that inspired her 2003 fiction, A Simple Passion; both books describe her affair with a younger married man, and her journal also gives us a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the writer's life--the source for the desire and longing Ernaux's works so powerfully evoke.