I'm a well read grad student who's bluntly honest about all things, although I try to be most honest about myself.
That's some... weird family dynamics. The daughter is five, in her father's arms, and looking down at her mother's corpse. The father "massaged the spot between his own legs."
It's really awkward and uncomfortable, but that's the point. Also, the girl is turned on by death and that's obviously the point that's made here. Much more clearly in the book as she thinks that "death feels good for all."
Italics in the original text. I'm liking this story so far, partly because I usually shy away from these types of stories so I feel like I'm expanding my reading a bit and I'm only a little over ten pages in.