The escape artist / Helen Fremont.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: Center Point Large Print editionDescription: 423 pages (large print) ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781643585925
- 1643585924
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Large Print Book
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Main Library | Large Print NonFiction | FREMONT, H. F872 | Available | 33111010441604 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Fremont writes with wit and candor about growing up in a household held together by a powerful glue: secrets. Her parents, profoundly affected by their memories of the Holocaust, pass on, to both Helen and her older sister, a penchant for keeping their lives neatly, even obsessively compartmentalized, and a zealous determination to protect themselves from what they see as danger from the outside world.
Regular print version previously published by: Gallery Books.
"In her frank, moving, and often surprisingly funny new memoir, Fremont delves even deeper into the family dynamic that produced such a startling devotion to secret-keeping. She begins her story with the discovery that she has been disinherited in her mother's will, her existence as a member of the family erased, and she writes with unflinching candor about growing up in a household whose members were devoted to hiding the truth. The younger and infinitely more pliant of two sisters, she was affected from early childhood by her family's obsessive focus on the unsteady mental health of her older sister, Lara, and by their alternating bouts of pushing away and demanding loyalty from her, all in service to supporting deep-seated family myths"--Provided by publisher.