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In the Dream House is a memoir by Carmen Maria Machado. It was published on November 5, 2019, by Graywolf Press. The book was awarded the 2021 Folio Prize and the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction. It was also longlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.
- Carmen Maria Machado
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- November 5, 2019
Nov 5, 2019 · Carmen Maria Machado's memoir explores her experiences in a toxic and violent relationship with a woman, using various narrative tropes and genres to express her trauma and resistance. The book is a finalist for the National Book Award and a Goodreads Choice Award, and has received critical acclaim and positive reviews.
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Nov 5, 2019 · An Amazon Best Book of November 2019: The shattering memoir In the Dream House from Carmen Maria Machado (Her Body and Other Parties) pivots around the small house in Bloomington, Indiana, that Machado’s girlfriend moves into shortly after they meet.
- Carmen Maria Machado
- $22.47
- Graywolf Press
A comprehensive guide to In the Dream House, a memoir by Carmen Maria Machado about her childhood in a lesbian cult. Learn about the plot, themes, characters, symbols, and historical context of this powerful and haunting story.
Feb 25, 2020 · A memoir by Carmen Maria Machado about an abusive same-gender relationship and how she coped with it as a graduate student. The book uses fairy tale and science fiction to create a maze of emotion and analysis, and aims to address the absence of stories about abuse between same-gender partners.
Nov 8, 2019 · Art Streiber / AUGUST. Check out more from Read Me, our queer literature column, here. “Afterward — when she will not stop trying to talk to you or emailing you with flowery apologies… — you’ll wish that she had hit you,” Carmen Maria Machado writes in her groundbreaking memoir, In the Dream House.
A critically acclaimed and best-selling memoir about a toxic relationship and the haunted house that symbolizes it. The author explores themes of love, abuse, identity, and horror with lyrical prose and inventive storytelling.
