TY - BOOK AU - Fremont,Helen TI - The escape artist SN - 9781643585925 PY - 2020/// CY - Thorndike, Maine PB - Center Point Large Print KW - Fremont, Helen. KW - Fremont, Helen KW - Children of Holocaust survivors KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Large type books KW - Autobiographies KW - lcgft N1 - Regular print version previously published by: Gallery Books N2 - "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 ER -