'The Incest Diary' Is Both Disturbing And Necessary
'The Incest Diary', by Anonymous, is disturbing for many reasons and, for this reader, impossible to put down.
The author of The Incest Diary describes how she was first raped by her father when she was a toddler—raped by a man who claimed his 3-year-old daughter wanted it. She calls herself “Anonymous,” this woman who writes in a trance-like fever of testimony, in a book meant to be hurled across the room and then urged on others for its dirty, shocking content.
She describes how her father continued the sexual abuse of his daughter until she was 21. “He said he couldn’t help
