sonianair 's review for:

The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy

5.0

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Ariel Levy astutely captures the carefree abandon of youth, the boundless optimism of being a woman in a world where you're told you can do anything, the profundity of platonic friendship, and the numbing grief of everything falling apart amid society's underlying judgement of women who don't follow the script. At 205 pages, The Rules Do Not Apply is a lightning fast read that left me feeling like the wind had been knocked out of me. Yet still hopeful.