
In the Dream House
A Memoir
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Carmen Maria Machado
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 - through which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships.
Machado's dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit, playfulness, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, fairy tales, Star Trek, and Disney villains, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.
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Haunting albeit beautiful
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wow wow wow!
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Difficult subject mastered with amazing style.
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Wow just wow
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Incredible prose on a devastating topic
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Dream House as a Natural Disaster (188-189) summatively compares the toxic/abusive relationship to choices surrounding living near a volcano. Overall, the memoir shows how one is blind-sighted in love, to have the carpet pulled from beneath oneself, and confusingly wrapped tightly around their person in an entrapment. The memoir, if given the opportunity, answers the blaming questions of why and how; it makes clear the subtle but gradual growth of psychological and physical abuse. It serves as a blueprint of domestic abuse that often is not recognized or defined in society.
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Lyrical and Poignant
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Beautiful and Heartbreaking Autobiographical Tale
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Sad and beautiful
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The author was candid
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