The Incest Diary

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'Raw, relentless… Feverish' New Yorker

'This is a devastating book about harm. It's about the harm that is unleashed when one person swaps their humanity for what you can really only call evil' Sunday Times

'A controlled, exquisitely written book, it disturbs and disgusts, but it also mesmerises and, at certain moments, charms in its quiet brutality' Amia Srinivasan, Harper's

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 with this secret. In this 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. As a matter of psychic survival, she became both a sexual object and a detached observer, a dutiful daughter and the protector of a secret. And then, years later, she made herself write it down.
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92 printed pages
Publication year
2017
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    💀Spooky
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  • trestrecehas quoted7 years ago
    My father controlled my mind, my body, my desire. I wanted him. I went home. I went back for more
  • ♡emma♡has quoted3 years ago
    I want him to be proud of me. I want him to think that I’m clever. I want him to think that I’m sexy. And I want to savagely mutilate his body and feed his corpse to dogs
  • ♡emma♡has quoted3 years ago
    This great pleasure of ours is bursting in light. I feel God in my heart getting bigger. I’m

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