![]() ![]() ![]() Read more: Exploring the Terror of Motherhood with Latin America's Most Promising Novelistįor two decades, Levy's work has probed the female experience: "What does it mean to be a woman? What are the rules?" she writes in her memoir. ![]() "But I think every woman at some point in her life will have some kind of epic experience around menstruation, fertility, paternity, pregnancy, childbirth, menopause, all these very animal aspects of being female." "Not every woman will have a child, not every woman-God knows-will lose a child," she said. "My dad said another title for this book could've been Tough Shit," Levy gamely mused, and while the shit she's been served is undeniably tough, it also speaks, on a native level, to the often bloody enterprise of womanhood. It is remarkable in its eloquent, unvarnished presentation of nightmarish loss and its utter lack of self-pity. The Rules Do Not Apply addresses each added blow in the clear-eyed manner of a journalist used to making sense of other people's lives. First came the miscarriage-a word that feels clumsy in Levy's context-then came the dissolution of her marriage and the loss of a home a few weeks later. "It's hard to comprehend, if you haven't experienced it, how real of a loss is when you're the one losing," Levy told Broadly. ![]()
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