You Won’t Get Free of It
stories of mothers and daughters
$45.76
- Hardcover
400 pages
- Release Date
20 July 2026
Summary
A collection of reported stories that explore the relationship between mothers and daughters by the award-winning author of Strangers to Ourselves
You Won’t Get Free Of It tells the stories of mothers and daughters searching for each other (and for themselves). With uncanny depth of perception, Aviv explores the complexity of this relationship in seven essays, six originally published in the New Yorker and reconceived for this intimate, revelatory book. ‘I wrote some …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781911717645 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1911717642 |
| Author: | Rachel Aviv |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Fern Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 20 July 2026 |
| Weight: | 750g |
| Dimensions: | 222mm x 138mm x 40mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
Aviv is an instinctive storyteller * Observer *I admire her rigor and eloquence but also her restraint - she makes vivid experiences we can’t explain – Ben LernerJanet Malcolm’s successor at the New Yorker * Tablet *
About The Author
Rachel Aviv
Rachel Aviv is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she writes about medicine, education, criminal justice, and other subjects. In 2022, she won a National Magazine Award for Profile Writing. A 2019 national fellow at New America, she received a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant to support her work on Strangers to Ourselves. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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