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

challenging dark emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

I would give Carla six stars for this book if I could. Ten? I listened to her read her story on hoopla, but I'm going to have to buy a physical copy so I can go back and underline and cry all over the pages. There were moments so vivid I had flashbacks to my own experience 15+ years ago, so similar, in too many ways to count. This wasn't some afterschool special. This was falling in love and out of love and feeling powerless and somehow, eventually, slowly, finding your power again, trusting yourself again, loving yourself, for once. I don't know that I could have read this book 15 years ago, but I wish that I had been able to read it before... Or maybe I wish that I had been able to reach across state lines back then, and find her, and that we could have shared our stories and gotten each other out sooner. Or maybe not. Maybe we couldn't get out until we could, until we did. 
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