In the Dream House

Carmen Maria Machado 2019

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
abuse memoir queer domestic violence

Our Take

Machado structures her memoir of an abusive same-sex relationship as a choose-your-own-adventure, a haunted house, a catalogue of tropes. The formal innovation is not cleverness. It is survival strategy.

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