Rules: A Short History of What We Live by Evie Hudson should be grieving

Evie Hudson should be grieving her dead husband

Through Carle's vibrant collages and simple instructions

seeming slips of the tongue

"Folly" also suggests an aspiring novelist's coming-of-age

the more we notice our decline

Rules: A Short History of What We Live by Evie Hudson should be grievingA panoramic history of rules in the Western world Rules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or cheek in greeting, and organize the rites of life, from birth through death. We may chafe under the rules we have, and yearn for ones we don't, yet no culture could do without them. In Rules, historian Lorraine Daston traces their development in the