Meet New Yorker Writer Ariel Levy

When thirty-eight-year-old New Yorker writer 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.

On Sunday, April 9 at 4:00pm, join New Yorker writer and author Ariel Levy and hear a reading from her new memoir, THE RULES DO NOT APPLY (Random House, March 2017). Refreshments will be available at 3:30pm.

Levy picks you up and hurls you through the story of how she built an unconventional life and then watched it fall apart with astonishing speed. Like much of her generation, she was raised to resist traditional rules—about work, about love, and about womanhood.

“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”, says Levy. “We want intimacy and autonomy, safety and stimulation, reassurance and novelty, coziness and thrills. But we can’t have it all.”

In this profound and beautiful memoir, Levy chronicles the adventure and heartbreak of being “a woman who is free to do whatever she chooses.” Her own story of resilience becomes an unforgettable portrait of the shifting forces in our culture, of what has changed—and of what is eternal.

Raised in Larchmont, Ariel has written a memoir of “uncompromising honesty, remarkable clarity, and surprising humor gathered from the wreckage of tragedy,” says Lena Dunham. “Her account of life doing its darnedest to topple her, and her refusal to be knocked down, will leave you shaken and inspired. I am the better for having read this book.”

Sponsored by the Friends of the Larchmont Public Library.

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