mushr00mcore 's review for:

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

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When I picked up this memoir, I didn't know it would be about abuse. I knew only that an author i loved had written it. I struggle to review non fiction. I struggle to assign merit to someone's life. So I've stopped rating them. Yet I feel the need to review them if I don't rate them but here I'm left with two thoughts rattling around in my mind: 1) the ways abuse, no matter the abuser, can leave similar scars and 2) this is a book I would like to buy hundreds of copies of, enough copies to hand to every sapphic woman I think needs it.