![]() ![]() 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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