title: My Father's House: A Memoir of Incest and of Healing
author:  Sylvia Fraser 
description: Sylvia Fraser grew up in a home where her father worked at a respectable job, was active in church, and provided for his wife and two daughters. Sylvia was a rebellious child who became an outstanding high school student; she was also a victim of incest for years and years, but no one confronted it. In her forties, after a divorce she didn't understand, an affair with the father of a high school friend, and continual dreams of a past she didn't recognize, Sylvia Fraser finally learned of her "shadow-self." This person inside her held terrible secrets: "She knew passion where I knew only inhibition, then grief where I knew guilt, then terror where I knew anger. She monitored my every thought, manipulated my actions, aided my survival and sabotaged my dreams, for she was I and I was she." She begins to understand some of the choices she has made, her actions and reactions to life. Admitting the violation of trust and love was part of her road to healing, writing this deeply painful book another part. Going beyond her own suffering, Sylvia Fraser reaches out to help readers understand the pain of victims who don't heal. <b>My Father's House</b> may give you renewed respect for the power of the human spirit and new insight into those who have experienced such violation. <I>-- For great reviews of books for girls, check out <a href="/exec/obidos/isbn=0140257322/${0}">Let's Hear It for the Girls: 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14</a></I>. -- <i>From <a href="/exec/obidos/isbn=0140175903/${0}">500 Great Books by Women</a>; review by Holly Smith</i>
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  When Christine Blacksworth’s larger-than-life
  
  
  father is killed on an icy road in Magdalena, New York, a hundred
  
  
  miles from the ‘getaway’ cabin he visited every month, she
  
  
  discovers a secret that threatens everything she’s always held to
  
  
  be true. Her father has another family which includes a mistress
  
  
  and a daughter. Determined to uncover the truth behind her father’s
  
  
  secret life, Christine heads to Magdalena, prepared to hate the
  
  
  people who have caused her to question everything she thought she
  
  
  knew about her father. But what she finds is a woman who
  
  
  understands her, a half sister who cherishes her, and a man who
  
  
  could love her if she’ll let him. The longer she’s around them, the
  
  
  more she questions which family is the real one
  
  
  A Family Affair
  
  
  Mary Campisi
  
  
    
  
  
  Smashwords Edition
  
  
    
  
  
  Copyright 2011 Mary Campisi
  
  
  First published 2006 by Jocelyn Hollow
  
  
  Romance
  
  
    
  
  
  A Family Affair is a work of fiction.
  
  
  Names, characters, and situatio