Sunday, April 5, 2009

My Father's House

In Sylvia Fraser's memoir, she is described to be both the detective and the murder victim by Margaret Atwood. This description of Fraser's memoir is spot on, as she does have to uncover her past to discover the trauma she had hidden from herself as a child. A miraculous way of self protection for such a young girl, she soon finds she had created another personality which filed away her memories of sexual abuse, a personality who also took over whenever she was raped by her father. The Child Who Knows is Fraser's other self that she had created, and later named as an adult, digging up her memories from the past. This Child Who Knows is indeed Fraser's murder victim, the one who hold's the secrets and memories of her sexual abuse from the age of three all the way to her years in university. This 'murder victim' would take over and protect Fraser from these experiences to the point where she had no idea of her sexual abuse. As a grown woman, triggered by a friend's experience, she finds that her hatred towards her father may be because she was raped. After this sudden anger and surprise thoughts about being raped, Fraser is determined to find answers to these accusations she comes up with. Putting herself in the detective role, she must go to a hypnotherapist to uncover the answers she is searching for. Searching for the answers to her own childhood experiences creates a unique mystery for the reader to become involved in. A very unique mystery, and also exciting as we wait for Fraser to find closure and answers to her own life searching within her life.

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