“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?”
The Escape Artist – Richard Russo
—Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Chances Are… and Empire Falls