{"product_id":"9780385333702","title":"After Long Silence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"To this day, I don't even know what my mother's real name is.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHelen Fremont was raised as a Roman Catholic. It wasn't until she was an adult, practicing law in Boston, that she discovered her parents were Jewish—Holocaust survivors living invented lives. Not even their names were their own. In this powerful memoir, Helen Fremont delves into the secrets that held her family in a bond of silence for more than four decades, recounting with heartbreaking clarity a remarkable tale of survival, as vivid as fiction but with the resonance of truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDriven to uncover their roots, Fremont and her sister pieced together an astonishing story: of Siberian Gulags and Italian royalty, of concentration camps and buried lives. \u003cb\u003eAfter Long Silence\u003c\/b\u003e is about the devastating price of hiding the truth; about families; about the steps we take, foolish or wise, to protect ourselves and our loved ones. No one who reads this book can be unmoved, or fail to understand the seductive, damaging power of secrets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat Fremont and her sister discover is an astonishing story: one of Siberian gulags and Italian royalty, of concentration camps and buried lives. AFTER LONG SILENCE is about the devastating price of hiding the truth; about families; about the steps we take, foolish or wise, to protect ourselves and our loved ones. No one who reads this book can be unmoved, or fail to understand the seductive, damaging power of secrets. —\u0026gt;\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47020620611824,"sku":"9780385333702","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780385333702_p0.jpg?v=1763694375","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780385333702","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}