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My Father's House: A Memoir of Incest and of Healing
My Father's House A Memoir of Incest and of Healing Author:Sylvia Fraser She was a beautiful blonde child, a star student, a quintessential 1950's teenager, a model wife, an award-winning journalist. As a girl, she loved Saturday matinees, giggled at pajama parties, ran for student council president, led the cheerleading squad, went steady with the right boy and married him, her proud father at her side. — But from th... more »e age of seven, Sylvia Fraser shared her body with a "twin", another self created to do the things she was too frightened, ashamed, repelled to do -- the things her father made her do. As an adult, Sylvia Fraser had no recollection of a sexual relationship with her father; for forty years the existence of her other self and the secret life she led had been unknown to her. With tremendous candor and eloquence, Fraser breaks through her amnesia to discover and embrace the tortured self she left behind.
A horror story, a mystery, and a coming-of-age story told with lyric beauty and intensity, MY FATHER'S HOUSE is an unforgettable book.« less