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In the Dream House
- A Memoir
- By: Carmen Maria Machado
- Narrated by: Carmen Maria Machado
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,703
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,471
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,463
In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. And it's that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope - the haunted house, erotica, the bildungsroman....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Devastatingly Beautiful
- By SeattleBookLover on 02-04-20
- In the Dream House
- A Memoir
- By: Carmen Maria Machado
- Narrated by: Carmen Maria Machado
Writing
Reviewed: 06-05-24
Beautiful writing, some parts hit me hard. Truly amazing read overall and definitely worth a listen!
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