{"product_id":"the-kiss-a-memoir-paperback","title":"The Kiss: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKathryn Harrison\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJane Smiley\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this acclaimed and groundbreaking memoir, Kathryn Harrison 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 begins when she, at age twenty, is reunited with the father whose absence had haunted her youth. 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. A story both of transgression and of family complicity in breaking taboo, \u003ci\u003eThe Kiss\u003c\/i\u003e is also about love--about the most primal of love triangles, the one that ensnares a child between mother and father.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKathryn Harrison's\u003c\/b\u003e novels include \u003cb\u003eThicker than Water\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eExposure\u003c\/b\u003e, both \u003cb\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/b\u003e Notable Books, and \u003cb\u003ePoison\u003c\/b\u003e, called \"powerful and hypnotic\" by \u003cb\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e and \"a masterpiece\" by Lucy Grealy. Harrison lives in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 7.96 x 5.28 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 12, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47450431062194,"sku":"9780812979718","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/ee47afcc2cf24bd6bfbe3e11e35be21b.webp?v=1778785255","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-kiss-a-memoir-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}