With no jobs or money, they were forced to live with Kathryns maternal grandparents. Kathryns parents married at 17 after her mother got pregnant. I know it wrong, and its wrongness is what lets me know, too, that it is a secret. What Kathryn could have never imagined was the darkness that followeda four-year incestuous affair she chronicles in her best-selling memoir, The Kiss. I'm young enough that I take the words to mean he has magical properties and that he is good, better than other people.With his hand under my chin, my father draws my face toward his own. We meet where no one will recognize us.A 'man of God' is how someone described my father to me. We meet in cities where we've never been before. I know it wrong, and its wrongness is what lets me know, too, that it is a secret.We meet at airport. With his hand under my chin, my father draws my face toward his own. I'm young enough that I take the words to mean he has magical properties and that he is good, better than other people.

A 'man of God' is how someone described my father to me. We meet in cities where we've never been before. She has also written memoirs, THE KISS and THE MOTHER KNOT, a travel memoir, THE ROAD TO SANTIAGO, a biography, SAINT THERESE OF LISIEUX, and a collection of.

| Authors, American - Biography.We meet at airports. | Novelists, American - 20th century - Biography. A story both of taboo 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.'-BOOK JACKET.

'In this extraordinary memoir, one of the best young writers in America today 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 began when Kathryn Harrison, twenty years old, was 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.

Kathryn harrison the kiss