You Won’t Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters

A collection of reported stories that explore the relationship between mothers and daughters by the award-winning author of Strangers to OurselvesYou Won't Get Free Of It tells the stories of mothers and daughters searching for each other (and for themselves).With uncanny depth of perception, 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 that was 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 parents’ children.In the final story, a daughter’s traumatic experience is erased by her family, only to be recas