Ariel Levy

"A gorgeous, darkly humorous memoir for readers of Cheryl Strayed 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--based on this award-winning writer's New Yorker article 'Thanksgiving in Mongolia'"-- "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...

A group of student activists travels to the Amazon to save the rain forest and soon realize that they are not alone, and that no good deed goes unpunished.

A mysterious man arrives in a small Canadian town seeking his wife, though his presence plunges the community into a bloodbath.

Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2013 which were originally published in American periodicals.