“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.

Helen’s essay “Pendulum” was selected as a Finalist in Solstice Literary Magazine’s Annual Contest.  Judged by Megan Marshall.  Read the essay here.

Helen will be featured as one of the memoirists at the Boston Book Festival 2020 in October.  Stay tuned for her audio interview.

Thank you to The Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon for her podcast and interview of me about THE ESCAPE ARTIST.  Listen to it here:

Read EB Bartels’ review of THE ESCAPE ARTIST in Wellesley Magazine.

“engrossing, complex… a must-read…”

Read Helen’s new essay “Family Volley” in LEON Literary Review.