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Author:
Helen Fremont
Publisher:
Gallery Books
Date:
February 11, 2020
Helen Fremont's bestselling memoir, After Long Silence, published in 1991 recounts her discovery in adulthood that her parents were not Catholics, as she thought, but Jewish Holocaust survivors living invented lives. In her new memoir, Fremont delves even deeper into the family dynamic that produced such a startling devotion to secret-keeping.
What The Reviewers Say
Helen Fremont wrote a memoir and her family metaphorically killed her for it. What’s a writer to do, then, but write another memoir that attempts to understand why?.
This tragic and unsettling (but also humorous and wry) memoir opens with an event that becomes the impetus of Fremont’s attempt to make sense of it all. Weeks after attending her father’s funeral, she receives a letter informing her of her own disinheritance.
In openly confronting the consequences of telling family stories — twice, after bad results the first time! — Fremont takes the reader along with her on the risky moon shot that is family memoir. With this eloquent guide, it is a difficult tour worth taking..
Fremont...continues—and alters—her story of how memories of the Holocaust affected her family.
