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Harrison's powerful, disturbing new book, the story of an affair she had with her father when she was a college student with a slender body and long, long blond hair and he was a stocky, handsome middle-aged preacher. He picks up his camera case, and, smiling brightly, he joins the end of the line of passengers disappearing into the airplane.'' My father pushes his tongue deep into my mouth: wet, insistent, exploring, It is no longer a chaste, closed-lipped kiss. I pull away, feeling the resistance of his hand behind my head, how tightly he holds me to him, the kiss changes. Harrison writes of her father's departure after a weeklong visit when she was 20 years old - the first time she had seen him in 10 years. ''A voice over the public-address system announces the final boarding call,'' Ms. Kathryn Harrison's memoir, ''The Kiss,'' is a book like this. The work reverberates with similarities to our own experience, and with differencesįrom our own experience, so that in the end it gives us a new way of looking at the world. Every now and then, though, a writer looks back with such bold clarity that it's as if we were living right along with the story. For a writer, memory is treacherous and preciousĪt the same time.
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One look backward can turn you into salt, or cause the loss of the woman you love. Kathryn Harrison remembers the affair she had with her father