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. They do everything in their power to escape.
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 the fairy tales about fatherdaughter 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 fathers sexual advances. In this graphic and harrowing memoir, the author revisits her early traumas and their aftermath 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.
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. This is a devastating book about harm' Sunday Times It has never been faced so directly on the page.'Shocking and searing. 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 to explore the ways in which her father's abuse shaped her, and still does. Throughout her childhood and adolescence, the anonymous author of The Incest Diary was raped by her father. This is a devastating book about harm' Christina Patterson, Sunday Times In a bare minimum of spare, straightforward pages, the anonymous author of The Incest Diary manages to accomplish a nearly inconceivable literary task: She makes it possible not only to imagine the psychological impact of ongoing sexual violation but also to understand in visceral terms why she and so many others cannot escape their abusers.
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