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

3.0

Some sections of this book are witty and brash, concisely metaphoric in ways that tell the reader something important they can hold on to; other sections are slow, pedantic, or they delve into ideas and events that aren’t as revealing as Machado believes. The vignette style makes the writing piecework at times, the dual history of a personal nature and history of lesbian domestic abuse cutting across each other without coming together. The note to Machado’s partner in the acknowledgments, which reads, “I’d do it all again, baby. It brought me you,” was an uncomfortable closure.
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