Rachel Aviv on writing about motherhood without sentimentality
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Guardian staff reporter
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An interview with Pulitzer-nominated essayist Rachel Aviv about her new book exploring the mother-daughter relationship. Aviv discusses her approach to writing about family bonds without sentimentality, the complexity of maternal relationships, and her journalistic method of deep listening and observation. She shares insights on how motherhood is often portrayed in reductive or clichéd ways in literature, and why she wanted to investigate this most intricate of human connections with nuance and honesty.
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The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex bond of all
I wanted to write about it in a way that felt true to the messiness and the love and the resentment all at once
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