The incest diary
Description
“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. They do everything in their power to escape. But I didn’t. A child can’t escape. And later, when I could, it was too late.”
Throughout her childhood and adolescence, the anonymous author of The Incest Diary was raped by her father. Beneath a veneer of normal family life, she grew up in and around this all-encompassing secret. Her sexual relationship with her father lasted, off and on, into her twenties. It formed her world, and it formed her deepest fears and desires. 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.
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. 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. And then, years later, she made herself write it down.
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. It has never been faced so directly on the page.
Subjects
Attachment behavior -- Case studies
Autobiographies
Case studies
Child abuse
Fathers and daughters
Fathers and daughters -- Case studies
Incest
Incest -- Case studies
Incest -- Psychological aspects -- Case studies
Incest victims
Incest victims -- Biography
Psychological aspects
Sexually abused children
Sexually abused children -- Biography
Sexually abused girls
Sexually abused girls -- Biography
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Grouped Work ID | 84ed9695-c016-c152-0691-2ac9020285a5 |
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Grouping Title | incest diary |
Grouping Author | farrar straus and giroux |
Grouping Category | book |
Grouping Language | English (eng) |
Last Grouping Update | 2024-10-06 00:19:59AM |
Last Indexed | 2024-10-15 04:54:23AM |
Solr Fields
Autobiographies
Case studies
Child abuse
Fathers and daughters -- Case studies
Incest -- Case studies
Incest -- Psychological aspects -- Case studies
Incest victims -- Biography
Sexually abused children -- Biography
Sexually abused girls -- Biography
Child abuse
Fathers and daughters
Incest
Incest victims
Psychological aspects
Sexually abused children
Sexually abused girls
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ils:.b19984546 | Book | Books | First edition | English | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2017 | 132 pages ; 20 cm. |
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