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Rachel Aviv

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309 total appearances

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

I think because it's about so many things that I, you know, memory, sort of family, trauma, the sort of generational dynamics of,

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

I think because it's about so many things that I, you know, memory, sort of family, trauma, the sort of generational dynamics of,

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

So Alice was away. Her father was dying. And... Andrea asked if she could sleep in the master bedroom, and Jerry Fremlin said, okay, don't tell your mother. And from there, he got into her bed and sexually abused her. She said it didn't even occur to her to tell her mother because she felt so unsafe in that house. And then it continued until she was...

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

So Alice was away. Her father was dying. And... Andrea asked if she could sleep in the master bedroom, and Jerry Fremlin said, okay, don't tell your mother. And from there, he got into her bed and sexually abused her. She said it didn't even occur to her to tell her mother because she felt so unsafe in that house. And then it continued until she was...

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

So Alice was away. Her father was dying. And... Andrea asked if she could sleep in the master bedroom, and Jerry Fremlin said, okay, don't tell your mother. And from there, he got into her bed and sexually abused her. She said it didn't even occur to her to tell her mother because she felt so unsafe in that house. And then it continued until she was...

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

through puberty, this sort of him exposing himself to her and sort of trying to proposition her.

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

through puberty, this sort of him exposing himself to her and sort of trying to proposition her.

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

through puberty, this sort of him exposing himself to her and sort of trying to proposition her.

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

I mean, so after Andrea told her mother about the abuse in 1992, which is 16 years after it happened, Alice left Jerry Fremlin. And he then sort of unleashed this, like, torrent of letters in which he was...

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

I mean, so after Andrea told her mother about the abuse in 1992, which is 16 years after it happened, Alice left Jerry Fremlin. And he then sort of unleashed this, like, torrent of letters in which he was...

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

I mean, so after Andrea told her mother about the abuse in 1992, which is 16 years after it happened, Alice left Jerry Fremlin. And he then sort of unleashed this, like, torrent of letters in which he was...

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

ostensibly defending himself, except what the letters actually were were like incredibly detailed confessions in which he explained that he was sort of responding to this nine-year-old seductress and that he knows that there are lolitos in the world and he was simply being a humpert, a humpert.

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

ostensibly defending himself, except what the letters actually were were like incredibly detailed confessions in which he explained that he was sort of responding to this nine-year-old seductress and that he knows that there are lolitos in the world and he was simply being a humpert, a humpert.

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

ostensibly defending himself, except what the letters actually were were like incredibly detailed confessions in which he explained that he was sort of responding to this nine-year-old seductress and that he knows that there are lolitos in the world and he was simply being a humpert, a humpert.

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

Well, she did immediately leave her partner and go to their second home on the west coast of Canada. And Andrea came there to be with her and felt the experience was not about her. It was about her mother as this sort of betrayed lover. Alice Monroe took her Jerry Fremlin back within a month. Within a month. Within a month.

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

Well, she did immediately leave her partner and go to their second home on the west coast of Canada. And Andrea came there to be with her and felt the experience was not about her. It was about her mother as this sort of betrayed lover. Alice Monroe took her Jerry Fremlin back within a month. Within a month. Within a month.

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

Well, she did immediately leave her partner and go to their second home on the west coast of Canada. And Andrea came there to be with her and felt the experience was not about her. It was about her mother as this sort of betrayed lover. Alice Monroe took her Jerry Fremlin back within a month. Within a month. Within a month.

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

And, you know, the way she explained it to Andrea was, you know, I loved him too much. I'm too dependent. I'm too old.

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

And, you know, the way she explained it to Andrea was, you know, I loved him too much. I'm too dependent. I'm too old.

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

And, you know, the way she explained it to Andrea was, you know, I loved him too much. I'm too dependent. I'm too old.