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First edition. |
| Description |
xi, 207 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
"A gorgeous, darkly humorous memoir for readers of Cheryl Strayed about a woman overcoming dramatic loss and finding reinvention, as well as a portrait of a generation used to assuming they're entitled to everything--based on this award-winning writer's New Yorker article 'Thanksgiving in Mongolia'"-- Provided by publisher. |
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"In 2012, at age 38, when she left on a reporting trip to Mongolia, Ariel Levy thought she had figured it out: she was married, pregnant, successful on her own terms, financially secure. A month later, none of that was true. 'People have been telling me since I was a little girl that I was too fervent, too forceful, too much. I thought I had harnessed the power of my own strength and greed and love to a life that could contain it. But it has exploded.' In gorgeous, moving, humorous, sharp, and unforgettable prose, with pointillist portraits of a girl and then a young woman coming of age, Levy describes her own ill-fated assumptions: thinking that anything is possible, that the old rules do not apply; that marriage doesn't have to mean monogamy; that gender and sexuality are fluid; that aging doesn't have to mean infertility. This is a searing story, written with humor, brilliance, and insight, that is at once personal and universal--a story about realizing that life is so often beyond our control, and how we forge ahead despite that. In telling her own story, Levy has captured a portrait of our time, of the shifting forces in values, women and gender in American culture, of what has changed and what has remained"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Levy, Ariel.
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Levy, Ariel -- Marriage.
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Women journalists -- United States -- Biography.
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Young women -- United States -- Biography.
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Miscarriage -- United States.
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Lesbians -- United States -- Biography.
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Sex role -- United States.
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Life change events -- United States.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Lesbian Studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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| ISBN |
9780812996937 (hardback : acid-free paper) |
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0812996933 (hardback : acid-free paper) |
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