Writer Rachel Aviv explores the complexity of the mother-daughter bond
Rachel Aviv, a staff writer at The New Yorker, discusses her new essay collection, You Won't Get Free of It, Stories of Mothers and Daughters, which revisits and reinterprets seven of her earlier pieces through the lens of motherhood, revealing how her own identity shift reshaped her
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