Emma Brockes, She Left Me the Gun: My Mother’s Life Before Me

He says, “I would walk around the township and I could point them out, which girls had been abused. You could see it in them. There’s a luminosity to incest. The taboo is so strong and the damage so great. Luminosity–do you understand? It travels across oceans and down generations. They shine with it.

Emma Brockes, She Left Me the Gun: My Mother’s Life Before Me

He says, “I would walk around the township and I could point them out, which girls had been abused. You could see it in them. There’s a luminosity to incest. The taboo is so strong and the damage so great. Luminosity–do you understand? It travels across oceans and down generations. They shine with it.

Emma Brockes, She Left Me the Gun: My Mother’s Life Before Me

He says, “I would walk around the township and I could point them out, which girls had been abused. You could see it in them. There’s a luminosity to incest. The taboo is so strong and the damage so great. Luminosity–do you understand? It travels across oceans and down generations. They shine with it.