Rachel Aviv
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 6 Jul
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Fresh Air · Writer Rachel Aviv explores the complexity of the mother-daughter bond · 6 Jul 2026
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Like the umbilical cord was still there on some level, like that you cannot separate the mother's sort of cycles and traumas from the daughter's way of moving through the world.
And it felt like by whatever chain of response it was occurring, it had been sort of absorbed by Hannah on some level.
And whether it was a coincidence or not didn't feel that meaningful because it had become a story that the family told and that acted on both mother and daughter.
So in July 2024, there was an article in the Toronto Star about how Alice Munro's daughter, Andrea Skinner, had been sexually abused by Alice Munro's husband, Jerry Fremlin.
And Alice Munro had kept that, sort of never sufficiently acknowledged it to the degree that her daughter, Andrea Skinner,
was estranged and could no longer sort of bear to be in her presence.
So Andrea was sort of a fan of her mother's writing.
She was proud of her mother's writing.
And there were some stories that were transparently about her.
A sexualized daughter who is in pain and sort of sacrificed.
And at first, Andrea felt, oh, this is great.
My mother is dealing with it.
She's processing it.
And as time went on and Alice Munro continued to write about it in various ways...
Andrea saw that she wasn't actually processing it.
She was using it.
She was like turning it into amazing art, but it wasn't like it went one way.
It was sort of channeling outward towards the work and not back inward towards her own understanding of what Andrea was experiencing.
It was this incredible act of like disassociation in a way where she could play with the ideas and
As if they were just sort of interesting themes.
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