You won't get free of it : stories of mothers and daughters / Rachel Aviv.
"A collection of reported stories that explore the relationship between mothers and daughters by the award-winning author of Strangers to Ourselves"-- Provided by publisher.
You Won't Get Free of It tells the stories of mothers and daughters searching for each other and for themselves. Rachel Aviv explores the complexity of this relationship in seven essays, six originally published in The New Yorker and reconceived for this intimate, revelatory book. "I wrote some of these stories feeling, existentially, like a daughter, and now I have returned to them with a different identification," Aviv writes. "It was as if I had failed to see the drama on the mother's side, too--her particular longings and humiliations and needs." 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. Illuminating ineffable registers of experience, Aviv reckons with the way that disowned knowledge forms and deforms families and lives.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525657057
- ISBN: 0525657053
- Physical Description: 223 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition: First hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2026.
- Copyright: ©2026
Content descriptions
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Preface -- I wish I were her for you -- Removable truths -- God knows where I am -- As if they were my daughters -- Second life -- You won't get free of it.
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- Subject:
- Mother and child > Family relationships.
Mothers and daughters.
Mothers. - Genre:
- Essays.
Available copies
- 2 of 10 copies available at NC Cardinal.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Johnston County Affiliated Libraries. (Show)
Holds
- 12 current holds with 10 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Library of Johnston County and Smithfield | 306.8743 Aviv (Text) | 38950611651375 | Adult New Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Cumberland Headquarters | CMB2010840 (Text) | CMB2010842 | Technical Services | In process | - |
| East Regional Library | CMB2010840 (Text) | CMB2010840 | Technical Services | In process | - |
| Etowah Branch | HCPL2038363 (Text) | HCPL2038364 | Adult New Nonfiction | In process | - |
| Etowah Branch | HCPL2038629 (Text) | HCPL2038630 | Adult New Nonfiction | On order | - |
| Henderson Main Branch | HCPL2038363 (Text) | HCPL2038363 | Adult New Nonfiction | In process | - |
| Henderson Main Branch | HCPL2038629 (Text) | HCPL2038629 | Adult New Nonfiction | On order | - |
| Hope Mills Library | CMB2010840 (Text) | CMB2010841 | Technical Services | In process | - |
| Kinston-Lenoir County Public Library | NEU2042899 (Text) | NEU2042899 | Adult Nonfiction | On order | - |
| Person County Library | 306.87 AVI (Text) | 34622503784549 | Adult New Nonfiction | Available | - |
