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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. 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. A child can't e "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.

"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.
