Hadn't heard of Ernaux other than in passing until she won the Nobel so I decided to give this a look! Overall pretty interesting, I learned a lot about French culture and how emergent globalization in the latter half of the 1900s influenced and shaped the country. I found the major throughlines to be spirals of sex, electoral politics, and consumerism. I also appreciated her (sometimes half-hearted) condemnation of French racism and xenophobia - something that France as a country has historically not been great at grappling with.