<p>¿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 <em>The Possession</em>, a striking portrait of a woman after a love affair has ended. Annie Ernaux pulls the reader through every step of jealousy, of a woman¿s need to know who has replaced her in a lost beloved¿s life. Ernaux¿s writing, characteristically gorgeous in its precision, depicts the all too familiar human tendency to seek control and certainty after rejection.</p>
