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Rachel Aviv is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she writes about medicine, education, criminal justice, and other subjects. In 2022, she won a National Magazine Award for Profile Writing. A 2019 national fellow at New America, she received a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant to support her work on Strangers to Ourselves. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Books by Rachel Aviv

Strangers to Ourselves

The highly anticipated debut from the award-winning New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv asks how the stories we tell about mental illness shape our deepest sense of who we are

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You Won’t Get Free of It

Real-life stories of mothers and daughters – of what we inherit, what we bury and what we, finally, find the courage to say – by the viral reporter and award-winning New Yorker staff writer

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