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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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Sep 05, 2023 Ashley Holstrom rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: author-of-color, own-print, print, sex-and-gender, memoir, reviewed, nonfiction, queer, 2023

Y’all. This book is an absolute masterpiece. It’s a memoir about queer domestic abuse and writing and how to exist in the world, but it’s not a straight-forward book of prose. Most chapters are a page long and focus on a single moment in time, with footnotes pointing to the parallels of her life to classic folktale themes. It’s told in the second person, putting you right in the middle of the messy story. It’s unlike anything I’ve ever read.

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Dec 28, 2020 Kathryn rated it it was amazing

Shelves: women-writers, memoir

I would call this metafiction except it's nonfiction. (But I do believe that all memoir is fiction on some level, just as all fiction is memoir on some level.) This is as dazzling in technique (bringing in references to everything from Star Trek to the Thompson Motif-Index of Folk-Literature) as it is often harrowing in subject. ...more

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Jan 03, 2020 Carly Thompson rated it liked it

Shelves: memoir, glbt, 2019, 2020

I didn't love this book as much as other readers. Machado tells the story of an abusive relationship with her former girlfriend by playing with form (every chapter is a brief excursion in a different style). A fast but dense read. ...more

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