Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

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frogbabies's review

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dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0


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seventhswan's review

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challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0


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beccadyerhair's review

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5.0


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carmentxx's review

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challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

5.0

my second reread of this book and it is just impossible to not sit and reflect on the world in tears. machado is just so incredibly talented, you feel her excruciating pain, her debasement, humiliation, the unflinching trauma of a hidden domestic abuse. in the dream house is so good because machado provides a hidden archived memory. she provides us as much of the archived memory and invited us to think about how much is hidden- in this way, a form of un-memory- we are aware of how much memory is missing because we cannot even comprehend the extent of the memory. machado’s memoir is genre breaking, a historical and literary feat because she shows us the potential of how much is missing. there is so much missing. 

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kryptonimdaria's review against another edition

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reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

not a fan of the style, couldn't get engaged in the in-betweens of the main plot, really important topic tho

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chloeanderson's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional fast-paced

3.5


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jkmh's review

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dark emotional medium-paced

4.5


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coffeedumps's review against another edition

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dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Such an important book for the queer literary canon. Intermingles memoir with history which breaks up the sorta poetic style of writing very nicely. I’m knocking down half a star bc I didn’t like the narrator sorry it was literally the author but like jdhdhhd 

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lindsaylhunter's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.5

Clever balance between a memoir and your traditional non-fiction novel. Poignancy runs through the heart of this book.

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megnut's review against another edition

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dark emotional informative medium-paced

4.25


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