“Extraordinary. . . As telling a chronicle of the times as The Catcher in the Rye or To Kill a Mocking Bird.”
- Jill Johnston, New York Times Book Review
She was a bubbly child, a popular teenager, and an award-winning journalist. Yet, from the age of seven, Sylvia Fraser shared her body with a ‘twin’ who lived a separate life from her. This other self was created to do the things Sylvia was too frightened, too ashamed, too repelled to do - the secret things her father made her do. For four decades Sylvia had no knowledge of this sexual relationship with her father. Her astonishing memoir reveals how she broke through amnesia to discover and embrace the tortured self she left behind. This is a testament to courage, and to the ability and wisdom of forgiving others in order to forgive one’s self.
“My Father’s House has the tension and pace of a detective novel - except that the detective is part of the narrator’s self, and so is the murder victim. A beautifully written and ultimately healing story by an amazing and courageous woman.”
Margaret Atwood
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