In the Dream House : : a Memoir

Location	Call Number	Branch	Item Status
Malletts Adult Books	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / Literary / Machado, Carmen Maria	Malletts Creek Branch	In transit
Westgate Adult Books	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / Literary / Machado, Carmen Maria	Westgate Branch	On Hold Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor	306.766 Ma	Downtown Library	Due 11-03-2021
Downtown 2nd Floor	306.766 Ma	Downtown Library	Due 11-11-2021
Downtown 2nd Floor	306.766 Ma	Downtown Library	Due 09-12-2021
Downtown 2nd Floor	306.766 Ma	Downtown Library	Due 11-04-2021
Pittsfield Adult Books	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / Literary / Machado, Carmen Maria	Pittsfield Branch	Due 11-07-2021
Traverwood Adult Books	306.766 Ma	Traverwood Branch	Due 11-10-2021

The author's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming.

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Damn submitted by kerenemoore on August 27, 2020, 1:59am Machado knocks this out of the park. She seeks a vocabulary, a paradigm, a method of communicating the unseen, misunderstood paradox that domestic violence in lesbian relationships presents. She does it artfully, wisely, painting with depth and endless analogies. We are pulled from shock to absurdity and back to reality again. You won't regret this read.

Must Read. submitted by gemr310 on July 1, 2021, 1:59pm Devastating and so important. Machado takes readers through her experience with domestic violence with creativity and poise. I couldn't put this book down.

Love it, plan to return to this again and again submitted by cbae on August 26, 2021, 1:40pm This one really hit hard. Machado weaves a rich and often devastating narrative of a complicated past relationship, drawing on folk tales and mythology to creatively express the nuances of connection between two people. I was sad to read it so quickly, but will return to it again and again. This work contributes important representation of abuse in queer partnerships and calls into question the complexity of any interpersonal relationship.