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Rachel Aviv's You Won't Get Free of It: A Collection of New Yorker Portraits Becomes More Than a Compilation

Stephanie DeGooyer

6d ago· 16 min readenReview

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Summary

Rachel Aviv's new book *You Won't Get Free of It* collects six of her celebrated New Yorker portraits, including pieces on Hannah Upp (who experienced dissociative fugue episodes) and Andrea Robin Skinner (whose childhood abuse was suppressed within her family while her mother Alice Munro refracted it through fiction). The book is framed by a new preface and is described as more than a simple greatest-hits compilation, representing an act of revision in Aviv's work.

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You Won't Get Free of It gathers some of Aviv's most celebrated portraits, including those of Hannah Upp, who disappeared three times in nine years during episodes of dissociative fugue, and Andrea Robin Skinner, whose childhood abuse was suppressed within her family even as her mother—the writer Alice Munro—refracted it through fiction.

But You Won't Get Free of It is not just a greatest-hits compilation.

I had written three stories with three lost babies, all of which I had left out.

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June 30, 2026 – “I had written three stories with three lost babies, all of which I had left out.”

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