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Rachel Aviv

You Won't Get Free of It

You Won't Get Free of It

An essay by Rachel Aviv exploring motherhood, published in the Los Angeles Review of Books.

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  • Sara Magenheimer
    Sara MagenheimerFirst to rec

    “A great journalist's genius act of revision is itself a decisive conceptual gesture within which contains worlds of mothers and daughters and all the rest of us.”

  • Janie
    Janie

    “Incredible psychological portraits of women - all shaped by the women that bore them, the women they bore.”

    4
  • Jenny
    Jenny

    “Rachel Aviv is one of the nonfiction GOATs. Devastating in a good way.”

    22
  • Gaea Woods
    Gaea Woods

    “Short nonfiction essays about mothers and daughters. Very psychologically driven - which as a therapist I love. Well written and emotionally complex.”

    1

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