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The Rules Do Not Apply

`Every deep feeling a human is capable of will be shaken loose by this short, but profound book` David Sedaris`I wanted what we all want: everything. We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising. We want to be youthful adventurers and middle-aged mothers. We want intimacy and autonomy, safety and stimulation, reassurance and novelty, coziness and thrills. But we can`t have it all.`Ariel Levy picks you up and hurls you through the story of how she lived believing that conventional rules no longer applied – that marriage doesn`t have to mean monogamy, that aging doesn`t have to mean infertility, that she could be `the kind of woman who is free to do whatever she chooses`. But all of her assumptions about what she can control are undone after a string of overwhelming losses.`I thought I had harnessed the power of my own strength and greed and love in a life that could contain it. But it has exploded.`Levy`s own story of resilience becomes an unforgettable portrait of the shifting forces in our culture, of what has changed – and what never can.

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