In the Dream House
by Carmen Maria Machado · 2019
Literary Fiction · ranked #85 in category
Machado recounts her abusive relationship with a girlfriend through a series of fragmented chapters, each named after a different narrative genre — romance, horror, fable. The memoir invents a form for the queer abusive relationship while also asking why such stories have been so hard to tell and so little believed.
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