3 'The Rules Do Not Apply' by Ariel Levy

The New Yorker writer stages a daring feat of literary courage by exposing her deeply intimate recollections of the infidelity that upended her marriage and life as she knew it. Despite the singularity of her confessional style, Levy’s is a memoir with universal relevance, mining by way of her own trials the general conditions of modern life's social and gender expectations. —Lauren Christensen



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