{"product_id":"2940169410976","title":"The Rules Do Not Apply","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA gorgeous memoir about a woman overcoming dramatic loss and finding reinventionamp;mdash;for listeners of Cheryl Strayed and Joan Didion\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen thirty-eight-year-old \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLevy 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 rulesamp;mdash;about work, about love, and about womanhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 changedamp;mdash;and of what is eternal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47162219331824,"sku":"2940169410976","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169410976_p0.jpg?v=1763681812","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169410976","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}