There is no place I would rather have seen. This Years Must Read Memoir (W Magazine) about a young womans search for meaning, love, and the choices she made. Without giving away her story, I don’t think you can beat this as a trailer for the turmoil unleashed in her one-of-a-kind memoir: “And the truth is, the ten or twenty minutes I was somebody’s mother were black magic. She plumbs the commotion deep within and takes the measure of her have-it-all generation. Ariel Levy The Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir Paperback Apby Ariel Levy (Author) 4.1 5,020 ratings Editors' pick Best Biographies & Memoirs See all formats and editions Kindle 13.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 14.99 130 Used from 1.18 25 New from 3.99 5 Collectible from 12. And she deploys prose to match, raw and agile. Levy has the rare gift of seeing herself with fierce, unforgiving clarity. Ariel Levy, The Rules Do Not Apply tags: feminism, have-it-all, wants 58 likes Like The truth is that the new conception of raunch culture as a path to liberation rather than oppression is a convenient (and lucrative) fantasy with nothing to back it up. She still qualifies, even after being buffeted by deep grief in marriage and pregnancy, and chastened to learn how much in life eludes control. Levy counted herself among that undaunted company. Her journalistic specialty was “stories about women who are too much.” The title of this inquiry, The Rules Do Not Apply, refers to both the before and the after a life lived in defiance of restrictions led to a crisis with no user manual. With dignity and grace, this former golden. Levy, who began her career at New York magazine before joining The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2008, knew early on “the kind of woman I wanted to become: one who is free to do whatever she chooses.” A bold and bookish girl growing up in Westchester, New York, in a pre-9/11 world, she thrived throughout her 20s and into her 30s on “a compulsion to thrust myself toward adventure.” She had male and female lovers. The honesty with which Levy confronts her youthful hubris and its consequences makes powerfully compelling reading. Ariel Levy picks you up and hurls you through the story of how she lived believing that conventional rules no longer applied - that marriage doesnt.

The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy