“…Beautifully written, honest, and psychologically astute. A must read.”
The Escape Artist – Richard Russo
“The Escape Artist does what the best memoirs do by forcing readers out of their own comfy shoes and into those of another human being. By the time Helen Fremont returned me to my own life at book’s end, I found it had been both shaken and expanded by hers. Isn’t this why we read?”
—Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Chances Are… and Empire Falls
The Escape Artist – Margo Jefferson
“A wrenching, riveting memoir… With hard-won clarity and compassion, Fremont shows herself to be a teller of complex truths and a literary artist.”
—Margo Jefferson, New York Times bestselling and NBCC Award-winning author of Negroland
The Escape Artist – George Hodgman
“A humane, honest, eviscerating but entertaining exploration of intimate betrayal, the legacy of secrets, and the high cost of truth-telling… powerful and utterly engrossing.”
—George Hodgman, New York Times bestselling author of Bettyville
The Escape Artists – Patricia Hampl
“A stunner of a family memoir – a harrowing, sometimes mordantly funny account of the wages of secrecy bred of war and dislocation… a page-turner of uncommon valor.”
—Patricia Hampl, author of The Art of the Wasted Day and A Romantic Education
The Escape Artist – Helen Epstein
“Powerful … a shattering account of growing up in a family that has survived genocide.”
—Helen Epstein, author of Children of the Holocaust
