MY FATHER’S HOUSE A Memoir of Incest and Healing <i> by Sylvia Fraser (Harper & Row: $8.95)</i>

As a child, Sylvia Fraser was an adorable little princess with golden curls--and the victim of repeated abuse by her father. The conflict between her love for him and her shame and revulsion at his behavior lead her to create a “bad” alter-ego who had endured molestation.

Using her skills as a novelist, Fraser traces the agonizing conflict between her two identities during her outwardly successful life: high school cheer leader, honor student, award-winning writer, beloved wife. After the hidden burden of her past destroyed her marriage, Fraser underwent the therapy that enabled her to confront her experiences. “My Father’s House” is a product of that catharsis and the forgiveness it engendered.