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In the Dream House

Carmen Maria Machado

Start date: February 25, 2021

Finish date: March 18, 2021

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Jun 10, 2020 Jessica Haider rated it really liked it

Shelves: lgbtq, memoir, bipoc-author, latinx

You know what goes well with cleaning the house and making lunch for the kids between their distance learning lessons? AUDIO BOOKS! Today I listened to the memoir In the Dream House. This is the 2nd book that I've read by Carmen Maria Machado. A couple of months ago, I read her short story collection Her Body and Other Parties, which I enjoyed.

This memoir focuses on the author's personal experience as the victim of abuse in her same-sex relationship. The book is comprised of a series of lyrical ...more

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Jun 26, 2020 Cheryl rated it really liked it

Shelves: feminist, narrative-non-fiction, lgbtqia

4.5 I haven’t underlined a book so much in a long time starting with the very first line about the “violence of the archive” and “archival silence”.....Machado writes “sometimes a story is destroyed, and sometimes it is never uttered in the first place; either way something very large is irrevocably missing from our collective histories....What is placed in or left out of the archive is a political act, dictated by the archivist and the political context in which she lives.”

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Jan 20, 2020 Ally rated it it was amazing

Shelves: truth-stranger-than-fiction, 2020-challenge

This book was magnificent. I don't remember ever reading a memoir that was laid out in this way, and so well researched that you didn't even notice it was researched. It was brave and beautiful, haunting and horrifying. I know it's only January 20th, but this is already in the running for the best book of the year. Read it. ...more

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