The Possession

The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can populate an entire city the whole world with a person you may never have met. These words set the framework for The Possession, a striking portrait of a woman after a love affair has ended. Annie Ernaux pulls the reader through every step of jealousy, of a womans need to know who has replaced her in a lost beloveds life. Ernauxs writing, characteristically gorgeous in its precision, depicts the all too familiar human tendency to seek control and certainty after rejection.