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

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

The theme of the book is dark and harrowing. However, the writing is so luminous and engaging, so informative and poetic all at once that you cannot stop reading. It is organized chronologically as a collection of small essays with autobiographic detail. They are fragments of a memoir, that comes together as such but which also surpasses its category by investigating domestic abuse in the queer community. It becomes relevant as a story of abuse but also of archival heteronormativity.