Ariel Levy

A gorgeous, darkly humorous memoir about a woman overcoming dramatic loss and finding reinvention—for readers of Cheryl Strayed and Joan Didion 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. 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. 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.

Mujer, activista gay y reportera, se ha convertido en el faro que guía a las escritoras norteamericanas contemporáneas. A través de su propia experiencia, Levy nos muestra porque la vida, a pesar de nuestros esfuerzos, no siempre nos da lo que queremos. "Quería lo que todos queremos: todo". "El feminismo otorgó a las mujeres de mi generación el generoso regalo de poder gestionar nuestra vida como quisiéramos". Levy abrazó por completo su ambición pero después de perder a su bebé, la tragedia le golpea en lo más profundo de su vida perfecta. Su narrativa se mueve al ritmo vertiginoso de un thriller apasionante pero su escritura nunca fue más clara.