The Rules Do Not Apply A Memoir

At thirty-eight, Ariel Levy seemed to have it all: a successful career as a staff writer at The New Yorker, a happy marriage, and a pregnancy she had long desired. She believed she had bypassed the traditional constraints of womanhood and built a life on her own terms. However, during a reporting trip to Mongolia, her world suddenly unraveled when she suffered a late-term miscarriage alone in a hotel room. Within a month, her marriage ended and her financial security evaporated. In this profound and candid memoir, Levy explores the 'delusion of adventurous living' and the harsh realization that we cannot control everything. It is a story about the shift from a life of boundless possibility to one of profound loss, and the resilience required to find a new way forward when the rules you lived by no longer apply.

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