{"product_id":"the-incest-diary","title":"The Incest Diary","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the fairy tales about fatherdaughter incestThe Girl Without Hands  Thousand Furs  the original Cinderella  Donkey Skin  and the stories of Saint Dymphna  patron saint of incest survivorsthe daughters are all as you would expect them to be: horrified by their fathers sexual advances. They do everything in their power to escape. But I didnt. A child cant 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 awayeven as she grew into an independent and adventurous young womanshe 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 aftermathnot from a clinical distance  but from deep withinto explore the ways in which her fathers 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986116177973,"sku":"ByrdShop_0374175551","price":34.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780374175559.jpg?v=1770887647","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-incest-diary","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}