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In the Dream House: A Memoir
A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties
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 relat...show moreBUY THE BOOK
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3.5
My mistake was reading reviews about it and looking at the ratings before reading. The entire time I felt incredibly guilty for wanting to rate it lower, when most people I know really enjoyed it and rated it five stars. So I kept waiting for THAT moment, for something to click and... It just didn't. Decent memoir, I finished it fairly quickly, some stories terrified me, some disgusted me, some I felt were unnecessary... Still, I couldn't prop...read more
My mistake was reading reviews about it and looking at the ratings before reading. The entire time I felt incredibly guilty for wanting to rate it lower, when most people I know really enjoyed it and rated it five stars. So I kept waiting for THAT moment, for something to click and... It just didn't. Decent memoir, I finished it fairly quickly, some stories terrified me, some disgusted me, some I felt were unnecessary... Still, I couldn't prop...read more
Thanks to everyone who joined us on Monday to chat about In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado.
If there was one word to sum up how this month's book made the group feel, it would simply be "uncomfortable".
But, to be fair, that's exactly how Machado wants you to feel as you navigate her experiences of emotional abuse at the hands of her ex-girlfriend.
Machado makes a lot of stylistic choices that you wouldn’t expect from a memoir and the...read more
5 stars.
I devoured this book even though it was, at times, incredibly difficult to read. Creative, lyrical, non-fiction is my jam, and the ways in which Machado weaves in her own narrative with the exploration of other own voices narratives and history was exquisite. Make sure to check content warnings before reading, and if you still feel interested, do yourself the favor of exploring this text.
I devoured this book even though it was, at times, incredibly difficult to read. Creative, lyrical, non-fiction is my jam, and the ways in which Machado weaves in her own narrative with the exploration of other own voices narratives and history was exquisite. Make sure to check content warnings before reading, and if you still feel interested, do yourself the favor of exploring this text.
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