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0062269461 (ISBN13: 9780062269461)

An Abbreviated Life

Ariel Leve

Paperback | Pages: 288 pages

Rating: 3.91 | 1377 Users | 193 Reviews

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A beautiful, startling, and candid memoir about growing up without boundaries, in which Ariel Leve recalls with candor and sensitivity the turbulent time she endured as the only child of an unstable poet for a mother and a beloved but largely absent father, and explores the consequences of a psychologically harrowing childhood as she seeks refuge from the past and recovers what was lost.

Ariel Leve grew up in Manhattan with an eccentric mother she describes as “a poet, an artist, a self-appointed troublemaker and attention seeker.” Leve learned to become her own parent, taking care of herself and her mother’s needs. There would be uncontrolled, impulsive rages followed with denial, disavowed responsibility, and then extreme outpourings of affection. How does a child learn to feel safe in this topsy-turvy world of conditional love?

Leve captures the chaos and lasting impact of a child’s life under siege and explores how the coping mechanisms she developed to survive later incapacitated her as an adult. There were material comforts, but no emotional safety, except for summer visits to her father’s home in South East Asia—an escape that was terminated after he attempted to gain custody. Following the death of a loving caretaker, a succession of replacements raised Leve—relationships which resulted in intense attachment and loss. It was not until decades later, when Leve moved to other side of the world, that she could begin to emancipate herself from the past. In a relationship with a man who has children, caring for them yields clarity of what was missing.

In telling her haunting story, Leve seeks to understand the effects of chronic psychological maltreatment on a child’s developing brain, and to discover how to build a life for herself that she never dreamed possible: An unabbreviated life.

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Title	:	An Abbreviated Life
Author	:	Ariel Leve
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	June 13th 2017 by Harper Perennial (first published November 17th 2015)
Categories	:	Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Psychology. Biography. Audiobook

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Ratings: 3.91 From 1377 Users | 193 Reviews

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I was pleasantly surprised with this memoir that I didnt expect to, but ended up really loving!Ariels story is entrancing and nuanced. Coming from a place of wealth and socioeconomic privilege on the Upper East Side of NYC, Ariel tells the story of her childhood, which one would make the incorrect assumption to be beautiful and easy. Unfortunately Ariels mother, a famous feminist, poet, author and film maker, was a black hole of attention seeking and implied mental illness, with absolutely 0

Since I'm on a memoir binge, I really wanted to love this one. But it felt more like a personal catharsis, less like a narrative. It was tough to really get invested in the story because it felt like the retelling wasn't fully fleshed out.

An Abbreviated Life is one of those rare books about which I'm not really going to be able to say much. This isn't due to any lack on the part of this memoir, but more that its contents hit so close to home that it feels so overwhelming and personal that it's difficult to write about. Although her name seemed familiar, I wasn't really sure that I'd previously read anything by Leve, and when I told a friend I was reading this book and she instantly knew who I was talking about, I finally googled

Updated!I wanted to make sure and rate this memoir before the year was over, because it's one of my favorite books of the year. Easily my favorite memoir/non-fiction of 2016.This fascinating memoir is a "mommy dearest" type tale, written so beautifully that you sometimes forget how unsettling it all is. Ariel Leve grew up with a celebrity-ish mother who was both unpredictable and manic, not to mention completely insane (as far as I'm concerned). She was forever telling poor little Ariel that

How do you review a book that mirrors your soul? An Abbreviated Life stunned me over and over again, as Ariel Leve writes about growing up with a mother who abused her, a mother whose constant venom and lack of boundaries reminded me of my own. Leve's mother berated her nonstop and made her feel unsafe in her own home; my mother yelled at me all the time and sent me sprawling into an eating disorder. Senior year of high school, I ran away from home and then left for college to preserve my

Anyone with a narcissistic/abusive parent will relate (my MIL & FIL for the record, not mine) to this story of how childhood abuse and neglect can fuck you up for life. Overall there was a tone of resilience and her intelligence was surely something the helped her. Some beautiful lines about water during her Bali period. Really makes you feel for the kids in similar situations who don't get a chance to tell their story or explain how they are brain damaged by a parent.

interesting, but a little too "this is my journal for personal therapy" for me