The Kiss

Description:

*We meet at airports. We meet in cities where we've never been before. We meet where no one will recognize us. A "man of God" is how someone described my father to me. I don 't remember who. Not my mother. 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. He touches his lips to mine. I stiffen. I am frightened by the kiss. I know it wrong, and its wrongness is what lets me know, too, that it is a secret.*

subjects: 20th century,  American Authors,  American Novelists,  Biography,  Incest,  Fathers and daughters,  Incest victims,  Electra complex,  Sexual behavior,  American Women novelists,  Authors, american,  Women authors,  Authors, biography,  Women, biography,  New York Times reviewed,  Incest in literature

People: Kathryn Harrison

Places: United States

Times: 20th century