FATHER'S DAYS: A True Story of Incest

by Katherine Brady ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 12, 1979

The time has come to ask whether publicly exposing dad as Big Bad Wolf serves any purpose besides fueling the fires of the victim's resentment. At the age of eight, Katherine Brady began climbing into bed besides her father at night to ease the loneliness and insecurity of her working mother's absence; for the next ten years they had a gradually escalating sexual relationship that filled her first with curiosity and then with dread. She married early and badly to get away, had two daughters, got divorced, and was spurned by two female lovers. So much for the niceties. Eventually the ""all messed up"" adult confronted her entire family and badgered her father into consulting an incest specialist with her; the results were limited. And parental apologies -- though, admittedly, some were polluted by rationalization -- couldn't stop the would be avenger. And when they refused to panic about the impending book, Brady resorted to a child's impotent fury: "". . .now I had a new resentment. They refused even to be intimidated."" The turning point was her parents' public admission of culpability at the trial for custody of her two daughters -- a happy ending of sorts. Brady says she waited years to hear not only that she was not alone, but that she was ""not to blame."" True for the incest, but what about the book?

Pub Date: Nov. 12, 1979

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Seaview-dist. by Simon & Schuster

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 1, 1979

Categories: NONFICTION