Book Review of Escape from Despair: A Croatian Family's Survival

Katarina Tepesh depicted her family history painfully and frankly in communist Croatia and American family history, after escaping from an abusive alcohol-dependent father in 1968. In the memoir of family heritage, these are all due to the addition of new information. And it continues to talk. This is a familiar story of family trauma, alcoholism and abuse as long as the original sin. Since the mid-1990s, literary and cultural records have grown in dark shadows of alcoholism and psychiatric disorders.

The following books were written by eight writers in eight different countries and talk about American immigrants. These books explore the myriad questions including love and family, hope and despair, culture and identity, but they also portray the pleasure and suffering of American immigration experience. - Imbolo Mbue, author of Behold the Dreamers. The trilogy of Frank McCourt recorded his life from New York City to Irish immigrant parents, Irish childhood until the childhood, eventually returning to New York City where he lived as a young Irish immigrant. And finally become a teacher and a writer. His story is about poverty and resilience, family ties, and hope for a better life in America.

Anne Frank remembers: Commenting on Anne Frank 's memory is autobiography of Mep Guise, Mep Guise helped Frank families survive their hidden two years. Her book is the main source or direct information of Dutch Jewish persecution during the Second World War. This is also direct information to hide the Jews at this time, such as the Frank family, Fanduan family, Dr. Albert Dussel. Autobiography of this book ... a cruel testimony? When survivors are asked about their experience, they tremble from head to toe, remembering all they have experienced. Therefore, they use international books and diaries to publish these catastrophic events internationally. Survivor story such as Maus, Art Spiegelman, Ann Frank of Ann Kramer