Rachel Aviv

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401 appearances 3 recordings 3 series 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 podcast

And yet these were the themes that for Andrea had sort of destroyed her young adulthood and childhood.

There was one audio recording between Alice Munro and her biographer.

And her biography did not mention the sexual abuse at all.

And she had asked for a meeting at a diner with her biographer.

And he recorded it, but he didn't use it.

And she basically said, yes, my husband sexually abused Andrea.

It's awful.

But...

I will be destroyed if anyone knows.

It will become who I am.

I've worked so hard to be who I am.

And I can't give that up.

And it was just so stark.

And there was no excuse she was even offering.

It was just that.

It was like I have traded my daughter for my career and my art.

I was thinking about the quote, you won't get free of it, which is a quote from one of her short stories where she describes a mother who has abandoned her children for a man.

And I think the era in which she was working was important.

Like, it was very rare for a woman to leave a man and sort of pursue her career.

Because we're talking about the 70s, right?

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