Escape from Despair is a powerful memoir, vivid and poignant. The pace is excellent, the details sharp, the characters unforgettable. This book lingers in the mind long after the final page.

Katarina Tepesh has written a memoir of power that hits you hard. She has survived violence and a brutal alcoholic father, and not only lived to tell her story but to tell it eloquently. This woman of remarkable strength doesn’t waste a word.

I can hear the author's voice and pain.

Well written and moving memoir, highly recommended.

As soon as I started to read Escape from Despair, it got me and I loved every paragraph.

Families living with a member, who has alcohol disease besides dealing with domestic violence, oscillate between hope and despair, suffering and care. The author writes how this living 'between' evolves in family and what coping and survival strategies families that come from different cultures develop.

Surrounding the tragic similarities of family circumstances that many women share, Escape from Despair is a vibrant recounting of life in a small town. This book is fascinating on so many levels.