Things Seen Kent Healy and self-responsibility

and self-responsibility

Encountering Ellis Island lays bare the profound and sometimes-victorious story of people chasing the American Dream: leaving everything behind

anxiety and loneliness after the birth of her first daughter

Break their hearts

movement of people across borders

Things Seen Kent Healy and self-responsibility"Annie Ernaux's work," wrote Richard Bernstein in the New York Times, "represents a severely pared down Proustianism, a testament to the persistent, haunting and melancholy quality of memory." In the New York Times Book Review, Kathryn Harrison concurred: "Keen language and unwavering focus allow her to penetrate deep, to reveal pulses of love, desire, remorse." In this "journal" Ernaux turns her penetrating focus on those points in life where the