Ten years later she got pregnant with the help of a sperm donor and then suffered a miscarriage while on assignment in Mongolia. Though Levy longed for motherhood and a comfortable life, she also had a “compulsion” for adventure. At 28, she fell in love with and married a 41-year-old woman with substance abuse problems. As a successful young writer in the 1990s (first for New York magazine), Levy traveled widely, writing primarily on the topic of sexuality and gender. Her mother encouraged her to make her own rules, with one caveat: never become dependent upon a man. As a child in Larchmont, N.Y., Levy was taught that she could achieve anything she wanted. In this dark and absorbing memoir, Levy ( Female Chauvinist Pigs), a staff writer for the New Yorker, recounts her complicated life and, with stunning clarity, reveals that the best laid plans can be sidetracked.
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