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Title: Entrancing, Horrifying, Blindingly Honest
Review: In simple, powerful prose, Kathryn Harrison tells a story of something that no human being should have to endure, of the incestuous abuse that happened to herself.I find it stunning that Harrison was able to write about her abuse with such mental acuity, such wisdom, and such vicious honesty.While the events in this book were horrifying beyond belief, I simply could not put it down, could not stop reading it, and go back to it time and again. Like the narcotic kiss Harrison describes her father inflicting upon her, I find the book to be like morphine: powerful, seductive, addictive, and sickening.The worst of the reality in this book is that Harrison has exposed something that truly happens, something our society hides, something we pretend does not exist. This book is so real, it must be read.
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