"A darkly humorous memoir about a woman overcoming dramatic loss and finding reinvention, as well as a portrait of a generation used to assuming they're entitled to everything. In 2012, at age 38, when she left on a reporting trip to Mongolia, Ariel Levy thought she had figured it out: she was married, pregnant, successful on her own terms, financially secure. A month later, none of that was true. In gorgeous, moving, humorous, sharp, and unforgettable prose, Levy describes her own ill-fated assumptions: thinking that anything is possible, that the old rules do not apply; that marriage doesn't have to mean monogamy; that gender and sexuality are fluid; that aging doesn't have to mean infertility. A story about realizing that life is so often beyond our control, and how we forge ahead despite that. A portrait of our time, of the shifting forces in values, women and gender in American culture. Based on her New Yorker article "Thanksgiving in Mongolia". Ariel Levy is a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine"--Provided by publisher.