The Kiss

In this acclaimed and groundbreaking memoir Kathryn Harrison transforms into a work of art the darkest passage imaginable in a young womans life: an obsessive love affair between father and daughter that begins when she at age twenty is reunited with the father whose absence had haunted her youth. Exquisitely and hypnotically written like a bold and terrifying dream The Kiss is breathtaking in its honesty and in the power and beauty of its creation. A story both of transgression and of family complicity in breaking taboo The Kiss is also about loveabout the most primal of love triangles the one that ensnares a child between mother and father.