My Father's House: A Memoir of Incest and Healing: A Memoir of Incest and of Healing

Fraser, Sylvia

ISBN 10: 0860681815 / ISBN 13: 9780860681816

Published by Abacus, 1999

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Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: My Father's House: A Memoir of Incest and Healing: A Memoir of Incest and of Healing
• Publisher: Abacus
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0860681815
• ISBN 13: 9780860681816
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 220 grams

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Synopsis

She was a beautiful blond child, a quintessential Canadian teenager: she loved Saturday film matinees, giggled at pyjama parties, ran for student president, led the cheerleading squad, went steady with the right boy and married him, her proud father at her side. But from the age of seven Sylvia Fraser shared her body with a 'twin' who lived a separate life from her. This other self was created to do the things Sylvia was too frightened, too ashamed, too repelled to do - the things her father made her do. As an adult, she had no recollection of a sexual relationship with her father, yet some connection always remained - pain, terror and guilt were never far from the surface. With tremendous power, candour and eloquence, Sylvia Fraser breaks through her amnesia to discover and embrace the self she left behind. MY FATHER'S HOUSE is at once a terrible account of a woman's coming of age and a lyric story of love and forgiveness.

From the Publisher

"A distinct contribution to the literature of the 1980s on children's sexual abuse."--Toni McNaron, Women's Review of Books "An important psychological document and a literary tour de force."--Lori Baker, Boston Herald