Join us for a Zoom conversation with Helen Fremont and Helen Epstein about Epstein’s new books, Getting Through It and Franci’s War.

Monday, May 9, 2022
7:00 p.m.

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Join Helen Fremont in conversation with Yelena Lembersky and Sophia Shalmiyev in a discussion of their memoirs,
Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour and Mother Winter.

Wednesday, April 6, 2022
7:30 p.m. EDT
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Join us all day Sunday, January 30, 2022 for a celebration of the anniversary of Facebook Group “Jews Love to Read!” Converse with authors, win free books and other items. You must be a member of the group to participate, but all are welcome to join. Click here for more information.

The Escape Artist is selected by Off The Shelf as one of “10 Page-Turning True Stories You Must Read To Believe”

Read the article here.

Arlington Author Salon: “Life, Art, and Family in History’s Shadow”
Featuring authors Helen Fremont, Yelena Lembersky, and Weina Dai Randel

Thursday, January 13, 2022
7:30 pm EDT

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“Unearthing Family Histories”
Join Helen and Author Judy Bolton-Fasman in conversation in a Zoom even sponsored by the Vilna Shul of Boston.

Wednesday, October 13, 2021
7:00pm EST

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Helen will be in conversation with author Lisa Gruenberg and journalist Ned Temko in a Zoom interview sponsored by Chaucer’s Books, Santa Barbara.

Zoom link to be provided.

Join Helen in conversation with Nan Cuba, author of Body and Bread for the Big Texas Read with Gemini Ink

7:00 p.m. Central

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The Escape Artist has been chosen as one of the “10 Page-Turning True Stories You Must Read to Believe” by Off the Shelf

Helen Fremont and Tracy Winn host a reading of New England Poets and Writers in celebration of the 45th Anniversary of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.

7:30 pm – 8:30 p.m.

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BookPage has selected The Escape Artist as a Best Book of 2020:

“When Fremont’s father died and her mother and sister legally excised her from the family, it opened up a lifetime’s worth of secrets, betrayal, trauma and lies. As far as family memoirs go, The Escape Artist is as twisted, insightful and beautifully rendered as they come.”

Thank you to the Museum of Jewish Heritage for my book talk with Helen Epstein about THE ESCAPE ARTIST.
Watch the video here.

Check out Helen’s interview on the Boston Book Festival’s Audio on Demand:
Memoirs: Secrets, Lies and the Mysteries of Our Youth

Helen’s interview appears first, followed by Betsy Bonner, and finally Nick Flynn.

The New York Times recommends Helen’s new book, THE ESCAPE ARTIST:

THE ESCAPE ARTIST: A Memoir, by Helen Fremont. (Gallery, 352 pp., $16.99.) Fremont’s previous memoir, revealing that her parents were Jewish rather than Catholic, led her father, who has since died, to update his will and declare her dead. He “metaphorically killed her for it,” our reviewer, Alexandra Styron, reasoned. What’s a writer to do but write another memoir to “understand why”?

Watch the short YouTube video (under 3 minutes): Author Helen Fremont On Being Disowned and Declared Dead By Her Own Family.