The incest diarey
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It formed her world, and it formed her deepest fears and desires. Her sexual relationship with her father lasted, off and on, into her twenties. Beneath a veneer of normal family life, she grew up in and around this all-encompassing secret. Throughout her childhood and adolescence, the anonymous author of The Incest Diary was raped by her father. And later, when I could, it was too late.” They do everything in their power to escape. We circled around my family and I lied about.“In the fairy tales about father–daughter incest-‘The Girl Without Hands,’ ‘Thousand Furs,’ the original ‘Cinderella,’ ‘Donkey Skin,’ and the stories of Saint Dymphna, patron saint of incest survivors-the daughters are all as you would expect them to be: horrified by their father’s sexual advances. When I was in college, I went to see her on Thursday afternoons. I liked her until we got closer to the incest. One of the therapists I lied to was a beautiful woman whose father had studied with Freud.
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she has articulated an experience that for many victims remains unspeakable." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) Reviews from Goodreads Back BOOK EXCERPTS Read an Excerpt An unflinching and staggeringly artful portrait of a shattered life. one of the most frank and cathartic depictions of child abuse ever written. "Without a doubt stands apart as a stark reminder of the human spirit's indomitability, and literature’s role as ballast." -Rich Smith, The Stranger The memoir shows the complex ripple effects of incest." -Zosia Bielski, The Globe and Mail (Toronto) "Her writing is exceptionally clear-eyed and beautiful, though the content is appalling. Reviews BookĮxcerpts About the Author Reviews Praise for The Incest Diary It has never been faced so directly on the page. With lyric concision, in vignettes of almost unbearable intensity, this writer tells a story that is shocking but that will ring true to many other survivors of abuse. And then, years later, she made herself write it down. As a matter of psychic survival, she became both a sexual object and a detached observer, a dutiful daughter and the protector of a dirty secret. In this graphic and harrowing memoir, the author revisits her early traumas and their aftermath-not from a clinical distance, but from deep within-to explore the ways in which her father’s abuse shaped her, and still does. Even after she broke away-even as she grew into an independent and adventurous young woman-she continued to seek out new versions of the violence, submission, and secrecy she had struggled to leave behind. Media Issues, Communication & Journalism.
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