The release date for the English version of 'The Rules Do Not Apply' by
Ariel Levy is Mar 2017. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
A stunning, darkly comic book for fans of Joan Didion and Cheryl Strayed about a woman who reinvents herself after suffering a significant loss.
Ariel Levy, a thirty-eight-year-old writer for the New Yorker, was successful on her own terms, married, pregnant, and financially comfortable in 2012 when she departed on a reporting trip to Mongolia. All of it was untrue a month later.
Levy scoops you up and throws you into the narrative of how she created an unusual existence and then saw its startling collapse. Like a large portion of her age, she was brought up to defy social norms around gender, love, and the workplace.
"I wanted everything, like everyone wants. We desire a lover who is unusual and unexpected, and a partner who feels like family. We want to be middle-aged moms and adventurous young people. We want independence and closeness, security and excitement, comfort and novelty, cosiness and thrills. We can't have everything, however.
Levy documents the joy and heartache of being “a woman who is free to do whatever she chooses” in this insightful and exquisite memoir. Her personal inspirational tale of resiliency transforms into a memorable depiction of the cultural forces at work, of what has changed and what remains constant.