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You Won’t Get Free of It

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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.

You Won’t Get Free of It tells the stories of mothers and daughters searching for each other and for themselves. Aviv explores the complexity of this relationship in seven essays, six originally published in the New Yorker and reconceived for this intimate, revelatory book.

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.

'Beautiful, thoughtful and probing writer' Daisy Johnson

© Rachel Aviv 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026

Critics Review

These essays struck deep notes when I read them in the New Yorker; she is simply brilliant
Guardian
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
Being a mother doesn’t make you better or more sage… But in Aviv’s care, at least, it seems to have brought new depths to her already excellent journalism
The Times
Author Rachel Aviv
Narrator Andi Arndt
Duration 7 hours and 25 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781529994971
Format Audiobook
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Genre Collected biographies, Literary essays, Parenting: advice and issues, Reportage, journalism or collected columns
Availability AU, GB, IE

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