by Katherine Brady
Brady's father, a prison guard, abused her sexually many times as she was growing up. She married her high school sweetheart and had two children, but became obsessed by memories of the childhood experience. Years later, in an attempt to come to terms with it, Brady ruined her own marriage, forced her father to admit to the abuse, hurt her mother and embarrassed her sister. The author, unrelieved in her sense of outrage, seems compelled to force everyone she knows, including her children, to pay for it. She comes across as an unpleasant if tragic woman, and her book is oppressive. Although "Katherine Brady" is a pseudonym, the author will make appearances to sell her book. Her mother and father will join her on TV talk shows. Public confession as a rite of exorcism apparently now includes even incest. (Seaview, $9.95)
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