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mjbookie 's review for:
In the Dream House
by Carmen Maria Machado
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
medium-paced
It’s such a cliche to refer to something as a “beautiful and raw account” of an event, but the way that Machado recounts her experience and the literary parallels she draws are beautiful and raw. Domestic abuse is something that is so personal and that affects different people in such a multitude of ways with differing severity, but I found so much of what she wrote to echo so many of my own thoughts and feelings on the other side of the tunnel that is an abusive relationship. To compound the captivating way in which she conveys her story, Machado’s ultimate point consistently chimes through: queer people are people the same and to not recognize every facet of their humanity is to do all queer folx a disservice and offers a false reality.
Reading this was intensely triggering, but Machado is a truly gifted writer and made the experience of consuming triggering media something I’d do all over again.
Reading this was intensely triggering, but Machado is a truly gifted writer and made the experience of consuming triggering media something I’d do all over again.