![]() ![]() ![]() Femininity, as a cultural personality, was no longer expressive for me. It was possible that femininity, as I had been taught it, had come to an end. However, when we no longer feel a sense of belonging in our family home, it is time to move on – to step out of the old story and invent a new one. But, to paraphrase Levy herself, why mortgage one’s life to someone else’s fear? It takes immense amounts of time, care and generosity to build a family home, to be the ‘architect of everyone else’s well-being’. Levy is fifty at this point, and the book starts with her realisation that she no longer wishes to live with her husband, to be part of the traditional societal view of the woman as wife and mother – roles designated to women by a longstanding patriarchal society. In essence, this fascinating memoir conveys Levy’s reflections on finding a new way to live following the breakdown of her marriage after twenty or so years. ![]()
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