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You Won’t Get Free of It
- Author
- Rachel Aviv
- Narrator
- Andi Arndt
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 9 July 2026
- Run Time
- 7 hours 25 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
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
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These essays struck deep notes when I read them in the New Yorker; she is simply brilliant
Guardian
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Aviv is an instinctive storyteller
Observer
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I admire her rigor and eloquence but also her restraint - she makes vivid experiences we can't explain
Ben Lerner
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Janet Malcolm's successor at the New Yorker
Tablet
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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
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Details
- Author
- Rachel Aviv
- Narrator
- Andi Arndt
- Duration
- 7 hours 25 minutes
- Release Date
- 9 July 2026
- ISBN
- 9781529994971
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Parenting, parenthood: advice, topics and issues, Essays, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Collected biographies
Synopsis
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
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