Rachel Aviv
Rachel Aviv is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she writes about medicine, education, and criminal justice, among 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 this book. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Strangers to Ourselves
- By: Rachel Aviv
- Narrator: Andi Arndt
- Length: 7 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: September 13, 2022
- Language: English
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The acclaimed, award-winning New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv offers a groundbreaking exploration of mental illness and the mind, and illuminates the... Read more
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