November 16, 2024 - 9:45am at the Peterborough Library

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Award-winning New York Times bestselling author Helen Fremont writes memoirs, essays, and short stories. Her memoirs After Long Silence and The Escape Artist were both best-sellers. After Long Silence describes her emotional journey upon discovering as an adult that her Eastern European emigre parents were Jewish, not Catholic. The Escape Artist was selected as a New York Times “Editor’s Choice” in 2020, recommended as one of the “Best New Books” by People magazine, and named a “Reader’s Choice” by BookPage. Her short stories and essays have been published in The Harvard Review, Ploughshares, and The Marlboro Review. https://www.helenfremont.com