The Rules Do Not Apply : A Memoir

from Narshkite

This is an exceptional memoir by an exceptional writer. I was amazed by many of the comments here. People are so hateful. Apparently if you are white, financially comfortable and educated you are not allowed to feel pain. This woman lost a child and was left by her alcoholic spouse in the space o...

from cln1812

Ariel Levy is a journalist who hurls through life, defying convention, from her lesbian marriage to trying to become pregnant in her late thirties. She likes to feel in control of her life but comes to realize there are some things, like her spouse's alcoholism, that she cannot control. In the en...

from voracious

Ariel is a well-known journalist who has always believed things would go her way. Her memoir starts out by announcing that she has lost her spouse, child, and home and as a reader, I felt compelled to find out what happened to her? Why do we do this...to find out how we can keep tragedy from happ...

from DKnight0918

I enjoy reading memoirs and this one was no exception. I enjoyed reading about her travels while writing various stories and about her life. I am proud of Levy for writing about her terrible experience with her miscarriage. So many women suffer from miscarriages and do not talk about it. I receiv...

from mcelhra

Publisher's Description: When Ariel Levy left for a reporting trip to Mongolia in 2012, she was pregnant, married, financially secure, and successful on her own terms. A month later, none of that was true. Levy picks you up and hurls you through the story of how she built an unconventional life a...