Rachel Aviv

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Fresh Air · Writer Rachel Aviv explores the complexity of the mother-daughter bond · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

And I think psychiatrists have been kind of tentative in part because it does have that sort of mystical whiff.

You know, I think there was some feeling that it felt too sentimental or like almost a cliche.

And I think on one level, I feel like this sort of grudging acceptance that there's a reason cliches become cliches.

They like, they're real.

On the other hand, I think

It almost felt like it couldn't be true.

And I think maybe one of the things that I was interested in when I went back to it was the way that it didn't really matter how true it was the first time, but then it sort of installs itself as this family myth.

And the story that Hannah has these fugues at the same time of year as her mother's lost baby

does sort of work on the people.

You know, it works on Hannah, it works on her mother, and maybe then it influences it in its own way.

So, right, like how much did Hannah absorb about that fact?

Or was she responding to her mother becoming depressed at that time of year?

Or, you know, maybe her mother had been feeling depressed always around that time of year, which would completely make sense.

And Hannah grew up with a particular sort of mood around that time of year, which then influenced...

her own cycle.

There are so many ways in which that can sort of filter into the family life and the family narrative, even if it wasn't explicit.

Yes, I think that's what it was.

Thank you for saying that.

I think it felt too mystical, too woo-woo.

And it felt...

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