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

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5.0

the relationship with the woman in the Dream House had to end. my relationship with Carmen, that’s a different story. When you read a person coming into the same somatic repulsion for a less-evil evil known as emotional abuse, you want to read that transition forever. The more time spent with her the more time spent with the girl I was before my own got it’s DNA translation, from unhurt to hurt. We less-victim victims have nostalgia for the same passages of time. This story can hold anyone who suffers from post-abusive nostalgia in the sweetest chokehold imaginable 
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