The Incest Diary

The Incest Diary
	Cover of the hardback edition
Author	Anonymous
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Memoir
Publisher	Farrar, Straus and Giroux (US); Bloomsbury (UK);
Publication date	18 July 2017
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	144 p.
ISBN	978-0374175559

The Incest Diary is a 2017 memoir by an anonymous author detailing her incestuous and abusive relationship with her father.

Synopsis

The author discusses how her father raped and abused her from ages three to 21 in graphic detail. The author told her mother, grandmother and a family friend about her abuse but was ignored. She eventually confronts her father, who apologizes and cries and goes on to tell the family about it. The author's grandfather tries to force her into a mental institution and her brother has a breakdown for which she feels responsible.

Critical reception

Writing for Vice, Lauren Oyler noted that early reactions to book, such as those published in The Independent, Globe and Mail and Newsweek were "disappointingly conservative".[1] H. C. Wilentz writes in The New Yorker that the book is "carefully wrought", and "the writing is often feverish", also noting that the critics of the book "pick apart the authors' methods and motives rather than engage with the thornier issues of taboo and transgression."[2] In a review in the New York Times, Dwight Garner praised the prose in the book as "clear and urgent" commenting that "book offers more sensation than perspective."[3]

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References

Oyler, Lauren (18 July 2017). "Anonymous 'Incest Diary' Is a Brutally Honest Account of Paternal Rape". Vice. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
Wilentz, H. C. (15 February 2018). "The Challenge of "L'Inceste" and "The Incest Diary"". The New Yorker. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
Garner, Dwight (18 July 2017). "A Dive Into the Abyss in the Anonymous 'Incest Diary'". New York Times. Retrieved 29 May 2020.

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[1] Oyler, Lauren (18 July 2017). "Anonymous 'Incest Diary' Is a Brutally Honest Account of Paternal Rape". Vice. Retrieved 1 June 2020.

[2] Wilentz, H. C. (15 February 2018). "The Challenge of "L'Inceste" and "The Incest Diary"". The New Yorker. Retrieved 3 June 2020.

[3] Garner, Dwight (18 July 2017). "A Dive Into the Abyss in the Anonymous 'Incest Diary'". New York Times. Retrieved 29 May 2020.