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The Kiss
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The Kiss (1997) (edit title/settings)

by Kathryn Harrison (Author) (edit contributors)

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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... read more

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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 a parent... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

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 a parent 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 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.

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My mother's parents raise me.

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  1. Kathryn Harrison (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Country: England
Publication Date: 1997
ISBN: 185702611X
Page Count: 192

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Reading Level: Adults

This novel is not for children. At all.

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