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Exquisitely and hypnotically written, like a bold and terrifying dream, The Kiss is breathtaking in its honesty and in the power and beauty of its creation.

In this extraordinary memoir, one of the best young writers in America today transforms into a work of art the darkest passage imaginable in a young woman's life: an obsessive love affair between father and daughter that began when Kathryn Harrison, twenty years old, was reunited with a parent whose absence had haunted her youth. A story both of taboo and of famil

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Book Title: The Kiss: A Memoir
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The Kiss: A Memoir by Kathryn Harrison,Jane Smiley Book Review

Name: Jana L.Perskie
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The Kiss - "a kind of transforming sting, like that of a scorpion."
Date: Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2005
Review: Kathryn Harrison's "The Kiss," is a powerful, beautifully written autobiographical work about her four year incestuous relationship with her sexually and emotionally exploitive father, her years with her dysfunctional family, especially her narcissistic mother, and ultimately, her story of survival. This is not a "tell-all," written to titillate voyeuristic readers. There is nothing graphically sexual written in this memoir of the author's childhood and early adult life. Pain, however, is found here in abundance, as well as courage.

When Ms. Harrison sought professional help because she feared for her life, (a potential suicide), and her sanity, she worked very hard to revisit her past, to learn about and understand the horrors she experienced, and to explore her family's dynamics, particularly those between her mother, father and herself. Although the subject of incest is a major taboo, the act - the crime - is much more prevalent in our society than one would imagine. Because there is so much shame attached to incestuous relationships, victims rarely divulge their dark secrets, and so documentation and accurate statistics are difficult to come by.

Kathryn's parents met when they were seventeen. They fell in love, and when the teenage girl became pregnant with Kathryn, the young couple married and lived with the disapproving maternal grandparents. Before the infant turned one year-old, her grandfather pressured her father, just a boy really, to leave and get a divorce so his wife could begin her life anew. Kathryn saw her father twice over the next twenty years. Her mother, who provided her child with almost no emotional stability, moved into her own apartment when Kathryn turned six, leaving her behind and no phone number or mailing address where she could be contacted. She did visit, however, and spent time with her daughter. Both grandparents raised the little girl, who was bright, gifted, and creative. She turned into a beautiful, but extremely troubled young woman, longing to be loved.

When Harrison entered college, her father, now an ordained minister, reestablished contact with her. He had remarried and had another family. Oddly enough, Kathryn's mother, who appeared to be still in love with her ex-husband, arranged for him to spend a week with their 20 year-old daughter and herself, and invited them both to stay at her small apartment. She vied with her daughter for the man's attention throughout his visit. When he left, Kathryn drove him to the airport. Ms Harrison writes: "A voice over the public-address system announces the final boarding call. As I pull away, feeling the resistance of his hand behind my head, how tightly he holds me to him, the kiss changes. It is no longer a chaste, closed-lipped kiss. My father pushes his tongue deep into my mouth: wet, insistent, exploring, then withdrawn. He picks up his camera case, and, smiling brightly, he joins the end of the line of passengers disappearing into the airplane." She wonders if the weird, unsettled feelings she has are appropriate...if other fathers kiss their daughters like this. "In years to come," she writes, "I'll think of the kiss as a kind of transforming sting, like that of a scorpion: a narcotic that spreads from my mouth to my brain." This is the kiss of the book's title - a turning point in the author's life and in her relationship with her dad.

For twenty years, throughout her childhood and adolescence, Kathryn yearned to have a father, like other children. It is painful to imagine the ambivalence she felt after "the kiss," and the guilt she felt for that very ambivalence after their physical relationship began. This is a man, a minister of God, who tells his very vulnerable daughter, that he "was frightened when he felt that he loved me more than God, but the heresy was resolved when God announced to my father that He was revealing Himself to my father through me."

The most shocking aspects of Ms. Harrison's narrative do not deal directly with the incest, her father's criminal behavior, her mother's extreme narcissism, or either set of grandparents. What truly astonishes is the realization that this woman survived to become a relatively healthy adult, an extraordinarily gifted writer, and a loving mother and wife. There is much here that is hopeful and inspiring. I purposefully put off reading "The Kiss" until I had read some of the author's fiction. I wanted to keep the memoir in perspective and not allow it to color my opinion about her other work. I have read three of her novels so far and have become quite a fan.

There has been way too much publicity surrounding "The Kiss," for all the wrong reasons, as far as I am concerned. Ms. Harrison has been accused of sensationalism, of writing about such a culturally taboo topic to make money, for not writing more from a victim's point of view - not portraying herself as sufficiently devastated, etc.. In an interview, the author said that one of the reasons she wrote this story, is because her first novel, where the heroine has an affair with her father, is deemed autobiographical by critics. The female character was/is totally unlike Harrison, and she felt as if she had "betrayed her own history." She wanted to set the record straight.

This searing account of an obsessive, forbidden love affair, in all its complexity, is brilliantly documented. There is a noticeable lack of affect in Ms. Harrison's sparse prose, demonstrating how detached she was from her feelings of rage, sadness and pain. She also discusses here her bouts with anorexia and bulimia, her attempts to reclaim her life and her quest for a personal identity. Not easy to read - but well worth the effort.
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Name: smele
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Lack of sympathetic resonance ruins this memoir.
Date: Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2012
Review: It's difficult to sympathize with a twenty-year-old woman who willingly engages in an affair with her father. I recognize the factors that lead Harrison into the incest. But I cannot connect with her as a narrator. Harrison never states that her father roped her up and forced her into having sex with him. She's not powerless. Thus her character cannot exact sympathy from me as a reader. If I read about someone who had a terrible childhood, I want to read about him or her overcoming it, not becoming victims even further; certainly not lamenting about being victimized and never taking any accountability. As Sven Birkerts once proclaimed, "Storytelling fails when the narrative cannot coax sympathetic resonance from the listener." There is nothing sympathetic about Harrison's incestual relationship with her father. If she were twelve, then it would have resonated more powerfully.

Certainly, I can't say that I found any of the memoir's characters sympathetic. The mother is too self-absorbed to own up to motherhood. The father is a perverted priest, just as self-absorbed in his lust for his daughter. The characters that try to help the damaged Harrison end up being pushed away. What is left if this narrative has no tolerable characters? Only shock value. I could reference the murderer Pee Wee Gatskins' "Autobiography of a Serial Killer" for an example. He was in no way likable. But he doesn't tease; he lets the reader get close in details and I felt continually disturbed. But with Harrison, there wasn't enough "shock" to keep me interested when I dislike her. While I don't desire to read smut scenes by Harrison of the incest, to say that she remembers nothing about having sex with her father can't be true. There were thoughts running through her head during the act. I continually felt this way during her memoir, as though she was holding me at arm's reach and refusing to allow me to emotionally connect with her via a deeper look into her mind. I failed to find the book an easy or quick read because of this; rather, it was a chore, and if it wasn't required reading for a course back in college, I would have put it down halfway through.

Furthermore, I found Harrison's method of jumping through time frustrating. Just on pages 192-93, we go from being at the bedside of her dying mother, to her father's car at a truck stop (at which point in the timeline this is, I'm still uncertain), and then to the memories of Harrison as a young child. Perhaps just jumping non-linearly through the memoir is a way of giving the reader a similar feeling of confusion to that of Harrison at the time, but it became tiring. That being said, Harrison does use words well, and the writing has an otherwise nice, fitting style.

Obviously, this is an acclaimed book with a place in the history of literature and memoir. But I came to dislike Harrison too intensely to get any enjoyment from this read.

Name: Karen baccellieri
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: unforgetable read
Date: Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2014
Review: i identified so much with the story told by Kathryn Harrison. Because of her early childhood treatment by her mother, she was primed to seek attention in a special way. When the man who was her biological father, although not the man who raised her, came back into her life when she was 20, she felt a special need to connect with him. Her "father" had many of the traits of a pedifile and soon sought a grandiose, fantasy relationship with her. Kathryn was able to be vctimized by this person because she was so needy, but also because she wanted to take something away from her mother who deprived her of her basic need for love and acceptance. The man had the same kind of power over her as an abusive husband often does. He isolates, demands control, punishes but at the same time puts the loved one on a pedestal with fantasy ideation and perfection of love. She was under the spell of this man for 4 years until she began to heal her emotional scars and mature. Kathryn, the author of the book needed to understand what was happening to her by writing about the relationship in this book and in fictional accounts which helped her to work thru what was going on in her life. Something like this doesnt happen except where there are some degrees of emotional illness in both the victim and the victimizer.
The book was reviting, beautifully told, and amazing. It was not salacious or trashy or detailed. The story was poignant, sad, and unforgettable. I look forward to reading more books by the author and recommend this book to mature readers who have compassion on a young needy woman.