A Father. A Daughter. A Kiss Wasn't Just a Kiss

摘要

Once, when she was in college, Kathryn Harrison went for a ride with her grandfather, whom she'd never met before. He was dying of prostate cancer and seemed friendly and mild. But then. "In his car, away from the notice of my father, his hand strays past the gearshift and onto my thigh," Harrison writes in her forthcoming memoir, "The Kiss." " 'Oh, oh, oh,' he says. Tou make me wish I was 30 years younger. If I was, you'd be in trouble'." Later that day, Harrison told her father about Granddad's incestuous flirtations and added, morbidly, "Maybe it's genetic." Harrison was in her 20s and embarking on a four-year affair with her father. She was, to put it mildly, in plenty of trouble already.