{"product_id":"2940169139419","title":"The Incest Diary","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the fairy tales about father¿daughter incestamp;mdash;`The Girl Without Hands,¿ `Thousand Furs,¿ the original `Cinderella,¿ `Donkey Skin,¿ and the stories of Saint Dymphna, patron saint of incest survivorsamp;mdash;the daughters are all as you would expect them to be: horrified by their father¿s sexual advances. They do everything in their power to escape. But I didn¿t. A child can¿t escape. And later, when I could, it was too late.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout her childhood and adolescence, the anonymous author of \u003ci\u003eThe Incest Diary\u003c\/i\u003e was raped by her father. Beneath a veneer of normal family life, she grew up in and around this all-encompassing secret. Her sexual relationship with her father lasted, off and on, into her twenties. It formed her world, and it formed her deepest fears and desires. Even after she broke awayamp;mdash;even as she grew into an independent and adventurous young womanamp;mdash;she continued to seek out new versions of the violence, submission, and secrecy she had struggled to leave behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this graphic and harrowing memoir, the author revisits her early traumas and their aftermathamp;mdash;not from a clinical distance, but from deep withinamp;mdash;to explore the ways in which her father¿s abuse shaped her, and still does. As a matter of psychic survival, she became both a sexual object and a detached observer, a dutiful daughter and the protector of a dirty secret. And then, years later, she made herself write it down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith lyric concision, in vignettes of almost unbearable intensity, this author tells a story that is shocking but that will ring true to many other survivors of abuse. It has never been faced so directly in an audiobook.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Macmillan Audio production.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104306446576,"sku":"2940169139419","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169139419_p0.jpg?v=1763673624","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169139419","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}