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You Won't Get Free of It by Rachel Aviv

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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.

Motherhood with a capital M

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You Won't Get Free of It

You Won't Get Free of It
Janie

Janie

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

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Jenny

Jenny

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

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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.”

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