In the Dream House
A Memoir
Graywolf · Print & ebook · October 7, 2020
Now available in paperback, Carmen Maria Machado?s In the Dream House is a searing account of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman.
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- Who it’s for
- Sharp, intimate, and built for conversation; this memoir stays with you after the page closes.
- Genres
- LGBTQ+ Lives, Personal Memoirs, Partner Abuse
- Published
- Graywolf, October 7, 2020
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Now available in paperback, Carmen Maria Machado?s In the Dream House is a searing account of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman. Each chapter in her wildly inventive memoir is driven by its own narrative trope?the haunted house, erotica, the bildungsroman?through which Machado holds her story up to the light, examining it from different angles.
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She considers her religious adolescence, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships. Machado?s dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit, playfulness, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, fairy tales, Star Trek, and Disney villains, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.
Sharp Intimacy
Sharp, intimate, and built for conversation; this memoir stays with you after the page closes.
Come here for
- Edgy, intimate memoir energy
- Book-club fuel without the usual safe edges
Expect
- A sustained, immersive read
- Warmth threaded through something more jagged
Where it sits
| LGBTQ+ Lives | 75% |
|---|---|
| Partner Abuse | 67% |
| Personal Memoirs | 52% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- LGBTQ+ Lives
- Authors
- Carmen Maria Machado
- Publisher
- Graywolf
- Published
- October 7, 2020
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- LGBTQ+ Lives