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Jan 10, 2020 · Photograph: Randy Shropshire/Getty Images. One result of this silence, she says, is that it may be that perpetrators such as her ex-girlfriend fail even to recognise what they’re doing as...
Jan 27, 2020 · I read In The Dream House — Carmen Maria Machado ’s incendiary memoir about an abusive ex-partner, and her grappling with the residue of that relationship—in little apertures during the fall: brief moments of focus on planes and trains and at my partner’s family home in Phoenix when we weren’t preparing our Thanksgiving lunch.
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Feb 19, 2020 · After freeing herself from the claws of her abusive partner, Machado reached out to her abuser’s other ex-girlfriend, Val, the woman she had been dating when they met. She made the connection in hopes of solidarity, wondering if Val had experienced the same frightening whirlwind of torment.
The “dream house” Machado writes of is, at times, a metaphor for the psychologically, emotionally, and verbally abusive relationship she was once enmeshed in. At other times, the “dream house” is literal, representing the physical space — her ex-girlfriend’s home — where she was terrorized. In the beginning, Machado writes of the ...
Nov 3, 2019 · That's a line from the opening chapters of In the Dream House, a new memoir by Carmen Maria Machado. It's an examination of sexuality and a haunting account of a physically and emotionally...
Nov 8, 2019 · Read Me: How Carmen Maria Machado Confronted Her Domestic Abuse To Write Her Acclaimed New Memoir. In the Dream House filters a bad lesbian relationship through a series of tropes, stretching the capacities of memoir in the process. By Meredith Talusan.
Oct 31, 2019 · Over the course of a formative love affair, the woman—who dwells, witchlike, in a cabin, in Bloomington, Indiana, which Machado calls the “Dream House”—will accuse Machado of cheating ...