{"product_id":"9780930012212","title":"The Family Secret: A Personal Account of Incest","description":"Rarely do we find an honest account of incest in the news. Though it has long been taboo in almost every culture, and for sound biological reasons, the occurrences of incest continue in many families and communities. Having a rational conversation about it, however, is difficult to achieve.\u003cbr\u003eDo not expect lurid accounts of threats and torture and kinky S\u0026amp;M from this book. This story is told with names changed, from the point of view of the girl-a straightforward account of the relationship of father and daughter over nearly twenty years. As she grew into young adulthood, the father became protective, but not possessive.\u003cbr\u003eAnd the girl-becoming-woman began to understand her strengths, and to test them-eventually to break free, marry and have a productive life of her own.\u003cbr\u003eFor most of the time, the relationship was a secret from the rest of the family, and certainly from the rest of the world. Eleanore Hill has chosen to stand up and proclaim herself a whole person of her own, and to share her experience publicly. Few have had the courage to do so, which makes this narrative especially valuable. In fact, when the book first came out in 1985, it garnered the Rhodora\u003cbr\u003ePrize, and was picked up by one of the major publishers, at a time when incest was scarcely talked about.\u003cbr\u003eThese days, with digital publishing, many more writers have committed their stories to print, emboldened by Eleanore Hill's forthrightness with the \"secret.\" Some publishers simply aim to titillate with the topic, hoping to benefit from prurient curiosity. For them, there will always be an audience.\u003cbr\u003eFor the more serious-minded, this three-dimensional account of the topic brings it alive in a real sense, not as a cautionary tale or a scold, but to see, as it were, behind the headlines, as a human story that needs to be told, and told with integrity.","brand":"Mudborn Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49785387876592,"sku":"9780930012212","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780930012212","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}