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>
zlib_text: The Warrior
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  Life is a funny place. To me life was always a mystery. To me life is where you are and who you are
  with. That is the only way I feel like I'm living. When I was growing up my life was a mysterious
  story. No one spoke about my mother or even her name. I was raised by my dad. He wasn’t the
  fatherly type. I was always told how much of an inconvenience me and my brother were. My brother
  was my life as we grew up. We relied on each other more than 