Ariel Levy’s The Rules Do Not Apply:  A Memoir is a raw, intimate account of the grief the author experienced during one unfathomable period.  In a few short weeks, she lost her child, her spouse, and her home.    Perhaps what Levy’s volume most clearly communicates is that if we live long enough, we will each experience loss – and sometimes we will lose almost everything we hold dear in one huge swath of destruction.  To surrender to that loss is radical in a culture that tells us (as it repeatedly instructed Levy) that we do not have to lose anything, … Continue reading Ariel Levy’s The Rules Do Not Apply:  A Memoir, Book Review