In the Dream House
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Author | Carmen Maria Machado |
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Audio read by | Carmen Maria Machado[1] |
Cover artist | Alex Eckman-Lawn (art)[2] Kimberly Glyder (design)[2] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Subject | Domestic violence |
Genre | Memoir |
Publisher | Graywolf Press |
Publication date | November 5, 2019 |
Media type | Print (hardcover) |
Pages | 264 |
ISBN | 978-1-64445-003-1 |
Website | carmenmariamachado |
In the Dream House is a 2019 memoir by Carmen Maria Machado. It was published on November 5, 2019, by Graywolf Press.[3][4][5][6][7][8]
The book was awarded the 2021 Folio Prize[9] and the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction.[10] It was also longlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.[11]
Summary[]
The book details Machado's emotionally, mentally - and at times, physically - abusive relationship with another woman while studying for her MFA at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in Iowa City, Iowa. It is a second-person narrative, with Machado referring to her victimized self as "you".[12] Machado utilizes a different narrative trope for each chapter.[13]
Reception[]
At the review aggregator website Book Marks, which assigns individual ratings to book reviews from mainstream literary critics, the book received a cumulative "Rave" rating based on 44 reviews: 32 "Rave" reviews and 12 "Positive" reviews.[14]
Kirkus Reviews gave the book a rave review, calling it a "fiercely honest, imaginatively written, and necessary memoir from one of our great young writers."[15]
Publishers Weekly gave the book a positive review, calling it "an affecting, chilling memoir about domestic abuse."[12]
Parul Sehgal of The New York Times praised the book, writing, "There is something anxious, and very intriguing, in the degree of experimentation in this memoir, in its elaborately titivated sentences, its thicket of citations."[16]
References[]
- ^ "In the Dream House (Audiobook) by Carmen Maria Machado". Audible. Retrieved December 29, 2019.
- ^ a b Carmen Maria Machado (November 5, 2019). In the Dream House: A Memoir. Graywolf Press. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-64445-102-1.
- ^ "In the Dream House". Graywolf Press. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
- ^ Canfield, David (November 5, 2019). "How Carmen Maria Machado wrote the best memoir of the year". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
- ^ Reese, Hope (November 7, 2019). "'I Was Trapped Forever In This Present Tense': Carmen Maria Machado on Surviving Abuse". Longreads. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
- ^ Garcia-Navarro, Lulu (November 3, 2019). "In The 'Dream House,' Carmen Maria Machado Recounts Nightmares". NPR. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
- ^ Millares Young, Kristen (November 5, 2019). "Haunted by humiliation, Carmen Maria Machado breaks form to address domestic abuse". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
- ^ Carothers, Vera (November 7, 2019). "Down to the Marrow: An Interview with Carmen Maria Machado". Columbia Journal. Columbia University. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
- ^ Flood, Alison (March 24, 2021). "Carmen Maria Machado wins Rathbones Folio prize for queer abuse memoir". The Guardian. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
- ^ "2020 Winners". Lambda Literary Award. June 1, 2020. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
- ^ "2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals Longlist". Locus Online. October 1, 2019. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
- ^ a b "Nonfiction Book Review: In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado". Publishers Weekly. August 8, 2019. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
- ^ "In the Dream House | Graywolf Press". www.graywolfpress.org. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
- ^ "Book Marks reviews of In The Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado". Book Marks. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
- ^ "In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado". Kirkus Reviews. July 8, 2019. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
- ^ Sehgal, Parul (October 29, 2019). "'In the Dream House' Recounts an Abusive Relationship Using Dozens of Genres". The New York Times. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
- 2019 non-fiction books
- English-language books
- American non-fiction books
- American memoirs
- Graywolf Press books
- LGBT literature in the United States
- LGBT autobiographies
- Queer literature
- Works about violence against women
- 2010s LGBT literature
- Literature by Hispanic and Latino American women