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In the Dream House

✍ Scribed by Machado, Carmen Maria

Book ID
110515217
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Year
2019
Tongue
en-US
Weight
239 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781644451021

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✦ Synopsis

A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties
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****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...

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