![]() ![]() This book is bold yet nuanced, expansive yet specific. The book is centered around the narrative of an abusive relationship, and each chapter offers a new, illuminating metaphor: “ Dream House as Omen,” “ Dream House as Lost in Translation,” “ Dream House as Exercise in Style.” These riveting fragments weave together folklore, fiction, and scholarship on queer domestic abuse. In the Dream House is billed as a memoir, but the word hardly captures the variety within its pages. ![]() When I picked up her new book, In the Dream House, I was hoping, instead, for someone to sit with me in the dark of the night. I turned the final page just as the birds outside my window began to chirp. She is not a writer who will sing you to sleep. Her debut collection, Her Body and Other Parties , conveyed the horrors of living in the world and inhabiting a body so vividly that it made her a finalist for the National Book Award. Nothing, it seemed, could put my mind at rest.Ĭarmen Maria Machado might seem a strange companion for such a night. Those who have wronged me and those whom I have wronged. ![]() These small irritations distracted me from sleep just long enough for all the big, looming concerns to descend. The sheets scratched, the cats in the empty lot next door screeched. ![]() Late one evening early in October, I struggled to fall asleep. ![]()
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