![]() ![]() Her life has been adventurous and, to some, controversial. Feminism offered women “the lavish gift of agency” and Levy grabbed it. ![]() Levy has specialised in stories about “women who are too much”. The woman who exhilaratingly thought she could have everything finds herself with nothing. Then she lost her baby, her spouse, her home, and she fell into the desolation she had held at bay, which had held her at bay. ![]() She believed she could be free and in perpetual motion. She believed nothing bad could happen to her in the “movie of her life”, because she was its scriptwriter and protagonist. From the time she was a clever, vigilant girl growing up in “clean, leafy” Westchester, New York, she had believed that normal rules did not apply to her, until she found that, after all, of course, they did: grief comes to us all. Levy is a fearless, original journalist, now on the New Yorker, and she uses these same qualities to scrutinise her own life, reporting its formation and unravelling. ![]()
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