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Rachel Aviv

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The New Yorker Radio Hour
Rachel Aviv on Alice Munro’s Family Secrets

Probably. I mean, I feel like it was more helpless than that because, of course, she had deep wounds from her own life. Right.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Rachel Aviv on Alice Munro’s Family Secrets

In sort of complex dynamics, it was a power game, sort of. She would be beaten, and then her mother would sort of come to her like a supplicant with all these treats and she would sort of resist and then she would fall back into it.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Rachel Aviv on Alice Munro’s Family Secrets

In sort of complex dynamics, it was a power game, sort of. She would be beaten, and then her mother would sort of come to her like a supplicant with all these treats and she would sort of resist and then she would fall back into it.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Rachel Aviv on Alice Munro’s Family Secrets

In sort of complex dynamics, it was a power game, sort of. She would be beaten, and then her mother would sort of come to her like a supplicant with all these treats and she would sort of resist and then she would fall back into it.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Rachel Aviv on Alice Munro’s Family Secrets

And I think, you know, like there's this language of like art monsters, which like sure applies, but I also feel like it's maybe less interesting or true to the experience of, you know, just being very wounded and sort of finding a man who kind of speaks to those wounds.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Rachel Aviv on Alice Munro’s Family Secrets

And I think, you know, like there's this language of like art monsters, which like sure applies, but I also feel like it's maybe less interesting or true to the experience of, you know, just being very wounded and sort of finding a man who kind of speaks to those wounds.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Rachel Aviv on Alice Munro’s Family Secrets

And I think, you know, like there's this language of like art monsters, which like sure applies, but I also feel like it's maybe less interesting or true to the experience of, you know, just being very wounded and sort of finding a man who kind of speaks to those wounds.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Rachel Aviv on Alice Munro’s Family Secrets

No, no, not to heal them. To allow her to sort of unknowingly replicate patterns from her childhood.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Rachel Aviv on Alice Munro’s Family Secrets

No, no, not to heal them. To allow her to sort of unknowingly replicate patterns from her childhood.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Rachel Aviv on Alice Munro’s Family Secrets

No, no, not to heal them. To allow her to sort of unknowingly replicate patterns from her childhood.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Rachel Aviv on Alice Munro’s Family Secrets

Yeah. I mean... It's just like an incredible level of sort of living, of performing. And I think, you know, she's spoken about that a lot in interviews, of feeling like she is two women. You know, one is the woman who's sort of being what other people want her to be. And the other is the woman who's sort of living a solitary, kind of watchful, removed existence. And so...

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Rachel Aviv on Alice Munro’s Family Secrets

Yeah. I mean... It's just like an incredible level of sort of living, of performing. And I think, you know, she's spoken about that a lot in interviews, of feeling like she is two women. You know, one is the woman who's sort of being what other people want her to be. And the other is the woman who's sort of living a solitary, kind of watchful, removed existence. And so...

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Rachel Aviv on Alice Munro’s Family Secrets

Yeah. I mean... It's just like an incredible level of sort of living, of performing. And I think, you know, she's spoken about that a lot in interviews, of feeling like she is two women. You know, one is the woman who's sort of being what other people want her to be. And the other is the woman who's sort of living a solitary, kind of watchful, removed existence. And so...

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Rachel Aviv on Alice Munro’s Family Secrets

Well, the interview with Daphne Merkin was the tipping point for Andrea, where she felt like... What year is it? I think it was 2004. And she felt like she was just being erased. And that was what prompted her to go to the police and report the abuse.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Rachel Aviv on Alice Munro’s Family Secrets

Well, the interview with Daphne Merkin was the tipping point for Andrea, where she felt like... What year is it? I think it was 2004. And she felt like she was just being erased. And that was what prompted her to go to the police and report the abuse.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Rachel Aviv on Alice Munro’s Family Secrets

Well, the interview with Daphne Merkin was the tipping point for Andrea, where she felt like... What year is it? I think it was 2004. And she felt like she was just being erased. And that was what prompted her to go to the police and report the abuse.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Rachel Aviv on Alice Munro’s Family Secrets

I talked to the detective and he was, you know, praising her for being this, like, incredibly straightforward witness who looks him in the eye. And, you know, and she had these incredible letters to back it up. Like, she was handing him the perpetrator's confession.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Rachel Aviv on Alice Munro’s Family Secrets

I talked to the detective and he was, you know, praising her for being this, like, incredibly straightforward witness who looks him in the eye. And, you know, and she had these incredible letters to back it up. Like, she was handing him the perpetrator's confession.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Rachel Aviv on Alice Munro’s Family Secrets

I talked to the detective and he was, you know, praising her for being this, like, incredibly straightforward witness who looks him in the eye. And, you know, and she had these incredible letters to back it up. Like, she was handing him the perpetrator's confession.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Rachel Aviv on Alice Munro’s Family Secrets

It was sort of patched up really quickly. He pled guilty to indecent assault. There was no jury.