Rachel Aviv

The highly anticipated debut from the award-winning New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv asks how the stories we tell about mental illness shape our deepest sense of who we are. There are stories that save us, and stories that trap us, and in the midst of an illness it can be very hard to know which is which... Strangers to Ourselves...

Real-life stories of mothers and daughters - of what we inherit, what we bury and what we, finally, find the courage to say - by the viral reporter and award-winning New Yorker staff writer You 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...