You Won't Get Free of It
Author: Aviv, Rachel
ISBN: 9781911717645
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 21 Jul 2026
Pages: 240
Format: Hardback
Plt;bPgt;Real-life stories of mothers and daughters Plt;/bPgt;P#8211; Plt;bPgt;of what we inherit, what we bury and what we, finally, find the courage to say Plt;/bPgt;P#8211; Plt;bPgt;by the award-winning Plt;iPgt;New YorkerPlt;/iPgt; staff writer and Pulitzer Prize finalistPlt;/bPgt;
Plt;iPgt;You WonP#39;t Get Free Of ItPlt;/iPgt; 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 Plt;iPgt;New YorkerPlt;/iPgt; and reconceived for this intimate, revelatory book. P#39;I wrote some of these stories feeling, existentially, like a daughter, and now I have returned to them with a different identification,P#39; Aviv writes. P#39;It was as if I had failed to see the drama that was on the motherP#8217;s side, too P#8211; her particular longings and humiliations and needs.P#39;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Aviv writes about one mother searching for her vanished daughter; another who sacrifices herself for her daughters by working as a nanny for other parentsP#8217; children. In the final story, a daughterP#8217;s traumatic experience is erased by her family, only to be recast by her mother P#8211; the writer Alice Munro P#8211; in stories celebrated around the world. Plt;iPgt;You WonP#39;t Get Free Of ItPlt;/iPgt; is an astonishing investigation of the competing dynamics of knowing and unknowing, recognition and refusal, that shape our most foundational relationship. Illuminating ineffable registers of human experience, Aviv asks piercing questions about how disowned knowledge forms and deforms families and lives.
ISBN: 9781911717645
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 21 Jul 2026
Pages: 240
Format: Hardback
Plt;bPgt;Real-life stories of mothers and daughters Plt;/bPgt;P#8211; Plt;bPgt;of what we inherit, what we bury and what we, finally, find the courage to say Plt;/bPgt;P#8211; Plt;bPgt;by the award-winning Plt;iPgt;New YorkerPlt;/iPgt; staff writer and Pulitzer Prize finalistPlt;/bPgt;
Plt;iPgt;You WonP#39;t Get Free Of ItPlt;/iPgt; 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 Plt;iPgt;New YorkerPlt;/iPgt; and reconceived for this intimate, revelatory book. P#39;I wrote some of these stories feeling, existentially, like a daughter, and now I have returned to them with a different identification,P#39; Aviv writes. P#39;It was as if I had failed to see the drama that was on the motherP#8217;s side, too P#8211; her particular longings and humiliations and needs.P#39;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Aviv writes about one mother searching for her vanished daughter; another who sacrifices herself for her daughters by working as a nanny for other parentsP#8217; children. In the final story, a daughterP#8217;s traumatic experience is erased by her family, only to be recast by her mother P#8211; the writer Alice Munro P#8211; in stories celebrated around the world. Plt;iPgt;You WonP#39;t Get Free Of ItPlt;/iPgt; is an astonishing investigation of the competing dynamics of knowing and unknowing, recognition and refusal, that shape our most foundational relationship. Illuminating ineffable registers of human experience, Aviv asks piercing questions about how disowned knowledge forms and deforms families and lives.
