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You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters

You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters

Aviv, Rachel

Hardcover

Letters & EssaysGeneral Sociology

Publisher Price: $30.00

ISBN10: 0525657053
ISBN13: 9780525657057
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Jul 7 2026
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.79
Height: 1.21 Width: 5.61 Depth: 8.41
Language: English
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE - A collection of reported stories that explore the relationship between mothers and daughters, from the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing for her work in The New Yorker.

You Won't Get Free of It tells the stories of mothers and daughters searching for each other and for themselves. Rachel 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 of these stories feeling, existentially, like a daughter, and now I have returned to them with a different identification, Aviv writes. It was as if I had failed to see the drama on the mother's side, too--her particular longings and humiliations and needs.

Aviv writes about one mother searching for her vanished daughter; another who sacrifices herself for her daughters by working as a nanny for other people's children. In the final story, a daughter's traumatic experience is erased by her family, only to be recast by her mother, the writer Alice Munro, in stories celebrated around the world. You Won't Get Free of It is an astonishing exploration of the competing dynamics of knowing and unknowing, recognition and refusal, that shape our most foundational relationship. Illuminating ineffable registers of experience, Aviv reckons with the way that disowned knowledge forms and deforms families and lives.

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