You Won’t Get Free of It
Stories of Mothers and Daughters
$46.75
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
21 July 2026
Summary
Real-life stories of mothers and daughters - of what we inherit, what we bury, and what we, finally, find the courage to say - by the award-winning New Yorker staff writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist.
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 an…
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: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 21 July 2026 |
| Weight: | 356g |
| Dimensions: | 223mm x 143mm x 24mm |
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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 Lerner
Janet 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 psychology, medical ethics, and criminal justice, among other subjects. She is a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing and the winner of a George Polk Award and a National Magazine Award. Her 2022 book, Strangers to Ourselves, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, was a New York Times bestseller. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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