Reunited

The incestuous affair between the writer Anas Nin and her father, the pianist-composer Joaqun Nin, is well documented in the volume of her unexpurgated diary published under the title Incest. What has been missing from that account is Joaquns point of view. Reunited: The Correspondence of Anas and Joaqun Nin, 19331940 presents more than one hundred intimate communications between these two artistic geniuses, revealing not only the dynamics of their complex relationship but also why Anas spent her life in a never-ending battle to feel loved, appreciated, and understood. Reunited collects the correspondence between Anas and Joaqun just before, during, and after the affair, which commenced in 1933, twenty years after he had abandoned his ten-year-old daughter and the rest of his family. These letters were long believed to have been destroyed and lost to history. In 2006, however, a folder containing Joaquns original letters to his daughter was discovered in Anass Los Angeles home, along with a second folder of her letters to him. Together, these letters tell the story of an absent fathers attempt to reconnect with his adult daughter and how that rapprochement quickly turned into an illicit sexual relationship.