My Father's House: A Memoir of Incest and of Healing

Rating:
Summary: Sad and sorrowful
Review: I loved this book and read every word but I gave it a 3 because I was confused with some of the other person accounts. The Other Self. I am very well aware that the author was probably a multiple personality but i found the other confusing at times. this is the only book I have read by Frazer and am not sure I will seek out another. I felt sorry for Danny who deserved better. But then I don't think I was sexually abused as a child so how can I condemn one who was? [...]

Rating:
Summary: Sad and sorrowful
Review: I loved this book and read every word but I gave it a 3 because I was confused with some of the other person accounts. The Other Self. I am very well aware that the author was probably a multiple personality but i found the other confusing at times. this is the only book I have read by Frazer and am not sure I will seek out another. I felt sorry for Danny who deserved better. But then I don't think I was sexually abused as a child so how can I condemn one who was? [...]

Rating:
Summary: A Finely Crafted Novel
Review: The topic of incest might be enough to drive away many potential readers of Sylvia Fraser's book, but there is so much more to be discovered if the reader takes a chance. I find Ms. Fraser to be fearless in opening herself onto the pages, exposing the good and the bad within herself, her family, and society. The events of her life, her journey through marriage, the rediscovery of her self and the integration of all her memories was at once joyful, inspiring, sad, tragic, and true. The detailed imagery took me back to the 1950s, a decade before I was born, to experience it as if I had lived through those years with her. I can truly say this is one of the better written books I've had to pleasure to read and my admiration of it's technical construction and voice has inspired a wish that I might someday write that well. I reread this book at least once a year and I've looked long and hard for other books by Sylvia Fraser, as I know she's written one titled Pandora's Box, but, alas, have not found them in print anywhere. Since I know the author is from Canada, I'm hoping someone will comment here and let me know where I might get copies. Sylvia, if you're reading this, hope you are well, living life to the fullest, have a few cats in your life, and are still writing more novels for me to discover.