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In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing experience with a charismatic but volatile woman, this is a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse.
Each chapter views the relationship through a different lens, as Machado holds events up to the light and examines them from distinct angles. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, fairy tales, Star Trek and Disney villains, as well as iconic works of film and fiction, infusing all with her characteristic wit, playfulness and openness to enquiry. The result is a powerful book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Imprint: Profile Books UK
Publication date: 01/10/2020
In the Dream House
by Carmen Maria Machado
Review by Rosa
Lyrical, haunting, and contemplative, ‘In the dream House’ highlights Carmen Maria Machado’s own experiences of being in an abusive same-sex relationship. Blending her reality with different forms of media, both factual and fictional, Machado constructs a very important narrative about telling the stories which are not told and how this silence on these topics is so loud and so detrimental. Mesmerising and intense, this memoir is an honest depiction of trauma, heartbreak, healing, and love. Carmen Maria Machado, you have my heart; nothing I could say would do justice to this masterpiece.
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