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Through essays and story fragments originally published in The New Yorker, Rachel Aviv examines language, desire, jealousy, and love as shaping forces in family life. The preface foregrounds a mother’s writing impulse and the push-pull of self-doubt, creativity, and domestic reality. It frames motherhood as both inheritance and negotiation, turning personal letters and memories into emotional evidence and literary craft.","ALSO BY RACHEL AVIV Strangers to Ourselves  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nA BORZOI BOOK  \nFIRST EDITION PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF 2026 Copyright © 2026 by Rachel Aviv  \nPenguin Random House values and supports copyright. Copyright fuels creativity, encourages diverse voices, promotes free speech, and creates a vibrant culture. Thank you for buying an authorized edition of this book and for complying with copyright laws by not reproducing, scanning, or distributing any part of it in any form without permission. You are supporting writers and allowing Penguin Random House to continue to publish books for every reader. Please note that no part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner for the purpose of training artificial intelligence technologies or systems.  \nPublished by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 1745 Broadway, New York, NY 10019.  \nKnopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC. The essays in this work were originally published, in different form, in The New Yorker.  \nGrateful acknowledgment is made to Jenny Munro for permission to reprint letters by Alice Munro in“You Won’t Get Free of It.”  \nLIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA Names: Aviv, Rachel author  \nTitle: You won’t get free of it : stories of mothers and daughters / Rachel Aviv.  \nOther titles: You will not get free of it  \nDescription: First hardcover edition. | New York : Alfred A. 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Her models for writing were Ann Beattie and Edna O’Brien, whose stories, often about thwarted desire, were regularly published in The New Yorker. “I think I’m as facile with language as they, that I can be as observant of dialogue, but my writing is still very self-conscious, very selfcentered,” she wrote.“I can only write about the suburban housewife…and essentially my problems.” She hoped to write a novel that would explore the “intimacies and jealousies and love women feel toward each other and toward men. I want to write a Madame Bovary—but I’m afraid I’ll at best write an Evergreen,” a melodramatic bestseller at the time.  \nShe tried to force herself to write every day while my sister, Sari, who was a baby, napped. (I had not yet been born.) But she found herself eating cereal, paying bills, reading the newspaper, buying bug killer, folding laundry, and, most often, sleeping.“Terrific,” she wrote.","cbCaidXbM4HoIdcp","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidXbM4HoIdcp","pdf",2515843,8,190,"English","en",105,"# Contents\n## Preface\n## I Wish I Were Her for You\n## Removable Truths\n## God Knows Where I Am\n## As If They Were My Daughters\n## Second Life\n## You Won’t Get Free of It\n## Author’s Note\n## Acknowledgments\n## A Note About the Author","[{\"question\":\"这本书主要探讨什么主题？\",\"answer\":\"书中围绕母亲与女儿之间的亲密关系展开，重点呈现欲望、嫉妒、爱与语言如何在家庭生活中形成张力。\"},{\"question\":\"《You Won’t Get Free of It》的内容结构包含哪些部分？\",\"answer\":\"目录显示包含Preface、若干篇故事/章节（如“I Wish I Were Her for You”“Removable Truths”等）、以及Author’s Note、Acknowledgments与作者附注等。\"},{\"question\":\"前言部分强调了怎样的写作背景？\",\"answer\":\"前言以作者母亲在1980年前后的写作愿望为起点，描述她在家庭日常与写作抱负之间的拉扯，以及投稿《The New Yorker》过程中的希望与自我审视。\"}]","You Won’t Get Free of It - Stories of Mothers and Daughters | PDF",1786107521,293,{"code":4,"msg":31,"data":32},"ok",{"site_id":24,"language":23,"slug":33,"title":13,"keywords":34,"description":14,"schema_data":35,"social_meta":87,"head_meta":89,"extra_data":91,"updated_unix":28},"you-wont-get-free-of-it-stories-of-mothers-and-daughters","",{"@graph":36,"@context":86},[37,54,69],{"@type":38,"itemListElement":39},"BreadcrumbList",[40,44,48,51],{"item":41,"name":42,"@type":43,"position":11},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":45,"name":46,"@type":43,"position":47},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/","Document",2,{"item":49,"name":12,"@type":43,"position":50},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/story-novel/",3,{"item":52,"name":13,"@type":43,"position":53},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/you-wont-get-free-of-it-stories-of-mothers-and-daughters/129758/",4,{"url":52,"name":13,"@type":55,"author":56,"headline":13,"publisher":58,"fileFormat":61,"inLanguage":23,"description":14,"dateModified":62,"datePublished":63,"encodingFormat":61,"isAccessibleForFree":64,"interactionStatistic":65},"DigitalDocument",{"name":9,"@type":57},"Person",{"url":41,"name":59,"@type":60},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-09-01","2026-08-07",true,{"@type":66,"interactionType":67,"userInteractionCount":20},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":68},"ViewAction",{"@type":70,"mainEntity":71},"FAQPage",[72,78,82],{"name":73,"@type":74,"acceptedAnswer":75},"这本书主要探讨什么主题？","Question",{"text":76,"@type":77},"书中围绕母亲与女儿之间的亲密关系展开，重点呈现欲望、嫉妒、爱与语言如何在家庭生活中形成张力。","Answer",{"name":79,"@type":74,"acceptedAnswer":80},"《You Won’t Get Free of It》的内容结构包含哪些部分？",{"text":81,"@type":77},"目录显示包含Preface、若干篇故事/章节（如“I Wish I Were Her for You”“Removable Truths”等）、以及Author’s Note、Acknowledgments与作者附注等。",{"name":83,"@type":74,"acceptedAnswer":84},"前言部分强调了怎样的写作背景？",{"text":85,"@type":77},"前言以作者母亲在1980年前后的写作愿望为起点，描述她在家庭日常与写作抱负之间的拉扯，以及投稿《The New Yorker》过程中的希望与自我审视。","https://schema.org",{"og:url":52,"og:type":88,"og:title":13,"og:site_name":59,"og:description":14},"article",{"robots":90,"canonical":52},"index,follow",{"doc_id":7,"site_id":24},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":93},[94,97,101,105,110,115,120,124,129,132,136],{"id":11,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":12,"show_sort_weight":95,"slug":96},90,"story-novel",{"id":47,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":98,"show_sort_weight":99,"slug":100},"Literature",80,"literature",{"id":53,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":102,"show_sort_weight":103,"slug":104},"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":106,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":107,"show_sort_weight":108,"slug":109},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":111,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":112,"show_sort_weight":113,"slug":114},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":116,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":117,"show_sort_weight":118,"slug":119},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":20,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":121,"show_sort_weight":122,"slug":123},"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":125,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":126,"show_sort_weight":127,"slug":128},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":127,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":130,"show_sort_weight":127,"slug":131},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":133,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":134,"show_sort_weight":133,"slug":135},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":137,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":138,"show_sort_weight":106,"slug":139},19,"General","general"]