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Fra Drømmehuset by Carmen Maria Machado

102 reviews

karelovesbooks's review against another edition

dark reflective fast-paced

5.0

Memoir is of a relationship gone bad and a breakdown of the pieces within that relationship that form a pattern of psychological abuse. The author wraps in narrative tropes that are supported by film, fiction, queer history, and more. It was a very compelling read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Violence, Vomit, and Murder

Minor: Blood

rmperezpadilla's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Body shaming, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, and Murder

Minor: Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Vomit

veeples's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.75

The beautiful, dreamy prode Machado employs is a brilliant and sharp contrast to the devastation that she experiences. It reads like poetry, though it’s not. It’s fluid and heartbreaking and gorgeous, and I am so glad to have read it. If you are a queer person, and even if you’re not, I think it’s a valuable read as a narrative that describes a mentally and emotionally abusive relationship and how its just as harmful as a physically abusive one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Alcoholism, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcohol

Minor: Body shaming, Blood, Dementia, and Car accident

sapphicmuscaria's review against another edition

dark hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

love book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

madsmccray's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, and Gaslighting

bashsbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional tense fast-paced

5.0

Machado has such a poetic way of writing prose, which is one of my favorite things about reading her work. This memoir is written like no other I've encountered, and it's easy to understand why: in telling sharing her own experience of domestic abuse, Machado is pushing against cultural notions that women cannot hurt each other, that abuse only comes from men, and if queer women admit their queer women partners have hurt them, then they're damaging the community's reputation. In the Dream House does an excellent job grappling with All Of That and more. I've read many stories that feature abuse (both nonfiction and fiction) and none have so radically changed my perception of it as this book has.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Grief

Moderate: Biphobia, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Lesbophobia, and Alcohol

Minor: Death, Physical abuse, and Dementia

pobaw24's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

murrderdith's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

This memoir was so beautifully and unsparingly devastating. Machado is unflinching in her account of (as Machado notes herself) all of the "legal" ways a partner can abuse and diminish you while also rooting the narrative within a folkloric framework (she never names the Woman in the Dream House, the only character without one in the way that the villains of those first stories we learn never have names as we recognize them)--returning again and again to the tropes of these ur-texts. Her language moves from ethereal and gauzy to razor-sharp in a way that reinforces the whiplash experience of having a volatile, erratic partner. 

**I would recommend looking at the content warnings from other users before reading this book if you are at all concerned it may be a difficult read for you to work through. I will add some but it is a likely an incomplete list**

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

This is a memoir of domestic abuse. It is beautifully written but not necessarily something everyone is in the right place to read. That said, it could also serve as a text the reader recognizes themselves in. I think it can be worth reading painful, recognizable texts for this reason. Proceed with caution.

edgaranjapoe's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Body shaming, Confinement, Cursing, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, and Dysphoria

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Car accident, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

chaotic_bibliophile's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, and Gaslighting