A Pulitzer finalist, Aviv has become known for rigorous, penetrating journalism that is as empathic as it is insightful. Now comes You Won’t Get Free of It, six stories of mothers and daughters, all originally published in the New Yorker. Of the mother representing madness, Marguerite Duras said: “Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we’ve ever met.” “I had not even asked a follow-up question,” Aviv admits, and you can feel her embarrassment. Aviv writes, not entirely comfortably, of how she is essentially living out her own mother’s dream career.