The Kiss: A Memoir

Author/Contributor(s):	Harrison, Kathryn; Smiley, Jane
Publisher:	Random House Trade Paperbacks
Date:	4/12/2011
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

In this acclaimed and groundbreaking memoir, Kathryn Harrison transforms into a work of art the darkest passage imaginable in a young woman’s 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 love—about the most primal of love triangles, the one that ensnares a child between mother and father.