A review by porcelain
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

challenging dark emotional

4.5

Thinking you are the only one to experience such a relationship, the isolation that comes with the combination of queerness and abuse. Not having the words to describe what is, in actuality, a common experience. Holding on to little snippets of memory, of memorabilia, to prove it as a real experience, that it happened. Reaching into the past to pull at threads of history and finding yourself in them. The abuser's steps being almost comically textbook, revealed in a single Google search, yet still somehow so ensnaring. Mourning something you know to be terrible.