Juju’s Reviews > Getting Lost > Status Update

Annie Ernaux chronicles the ups and downs of an actual love affair over a few years. Her reference is her journals, which she apparently kept pretty scrupulously, and her knack of writing with what one reviewer calls the focus of a sociologist. Not everyone will want to read a story like this, but this kind of thing does happen--a lot--and I've found Ernaux's experience of it fascinating.