{"product_id":"the-kiss-isbn-9780812979718","title":"The Kiss","description":"In 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.“I couldn’t stop reading this. I’ll never stop remembering it.”\u003cb\u003e—Mary Karr, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Liars’ Club\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Only a writer of extraordinary gifts could bring so much light to bear on so dark a matter, redeeming it with the steadiness of her gaze and the uncanny, heartbreaking exactitude of her language.”\u003cb\u003e—Tobias Wolff, author of \u003ci\u003eThis Boy’s Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Beautifully written . . . jumping back and forth in time yet drawing you irresistibly toward the heart of a great evil.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Like all good literature,\u003ci\u003e The Kiss\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates something that we knew already, while also teaching us things we had not even suspected.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A darkly beautiful book, fearless and frightening, ironic and compassionate.”\u003cb\u003e—Mary Gordon, author of\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e Circling My Mother\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Harrison’s story is her own, but it is also a brilliant fiction, densely mythic, sometimes almost liturgical sounding and raw. She is both author and protagonist of a dark pilgrim’s progress.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Atlanta Journal and Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\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.We meet at airports. We meet in cities where we've never been before. We meet where no one will recognize us. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of us flies, the other brings a car, and in it we set out for some destination. Increasingly, the places we go are unreal places: the Petrified Forest, Monument Valley, the Grand Canyon -- places as stark and beautiful and deadly as those revealed in satellite photographs of distant planets. Airless, burning, inhuman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAgainst such backdrops, my father takes my face in his hands. He tips it up and kisses my closed eyes, my throat. I feel his fingers in the hair at the nape of my neck. I feel his hot breath on my eyelids.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe quarrel sometimes, and sometimes we weep. The road always stretches endlessly ahead and behind us, so that we are out of time as well as out of place. We go to Muir Woods in northern California, so shrouded in blue fog that the road is lost; and we drive down the Natchez Trace into deep, green Mississippi summer. The trees bear blossoms big as my head; their ivory petals drift to the ground and cover our tracks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeparated from family and from the flow of time, from work and from school; standing against a sheer face of red rock one thousand feet high; kneeling in a cave dwelling two thousand years old; watching as a million bats stream from the mouth of Carlsbad Caverns into the purple dusk -- these nowheres and no-times are the only home we have.New York Times bestseller; Afterword by Jane Smiley","brand":"Random House Trade Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302346543333,"sku":"NP9780812979718","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780812979718.jpg?v=1767740063","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-kiss-isbn-9780812979718","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}