The Incest Diary Audiobook

“In the fairy tales about father–daughter incest—‘The Girl Without Hands,’ ‘Thousand Furs,’ the original ‘Cinderella,’ ‘Donkey Skin,’ and the stories of Saint Dymphna, patron saint of incest survivors—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.” Throughout her childhood and adolescence, the anonymous author of The Incest Diary 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 away—even as she grew into an independent and adventurous young woman—she continued to seek out new versions of the violence, submission, and secrecy she had struggled to leave behind. In this graphic and harrowing memoir, the author revisits her early traumas and their aftermath—not from a clinical distance, but from deep within—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. With 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.

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"This audio book was sad, disgusting, and erotic but most of all...it was honest. The narrator did a phenomenal job. This story about about the best kept most horrific family secret is unfortunately not the only story of its kind. It is however, the only one that captures the true love/hate relationship between a child and their abuser. I also like that the author wrote it strictly for information. I am sure in some way it helped her therapeutically but the intent was to inform. Inform others in that situation that they are not alone in the situation or their thoughts or feelings about it. As much as I was saddened to listen to this book, I needed to listen to it.Thank you Anonymous"

— Frances Malone (5 out of 5 stars)