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In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

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bebidocrimes's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

This feels like it should be required reading for every young queer person. It really expresses the importance of breaking the utopian lense with which we regard queer relationships. It feels especially poignant to me as someone who sees herself as less desirable and has accepted whatever attention she could get in the past. 

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beccadyerhair's review against another edition

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5.0


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carmentxx's review against another edition

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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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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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megnut's review against another edition

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dark emotional informative medium-paced

4.25


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pantrat's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0


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unknowncoco's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

5.0


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itsbilliam's review against another edition

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dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

i was expecting this to be five star and it didn’t disappoint. i absolutely loved the realness in how this was written. this will stay with me forever. 

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alexijai98's review against another edition

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emotional slow-paced

5.0

Beautifully written and a modern classic of queer writing.

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