Petersburg, FLĪ revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties I feel so grateful to her for sharing her painful past, giving us new ways to think about power and persuasion, and grateful to Graywolf for giving her a platform.” She is an innovative writer and queer hero of our time.

Her pivotal story interrogates stereotypes and contributes essential questions to the global #MeToo discussion. She is a master architect who occasionally lobs a brick through the glass, disturbing collective notions of ‘lesbian utopia’ and violence as masculine.

“Carmen Maria Machado uses short memoir pieces to build a sinister Dream House around her readers. Jason Foose, Changing Hands, Tempe, AZ Winter 2020 Reading Group Indie Next List In the Dream House is a unique and extraordinary book.” I didn’t feel like I was reading a book so much as observing a person’s innermost thoughts. Her words move with a strange kind of urgency, surreal and yet true, like late-night phone calls when the rest of the world is asleep. Machado has a gift for exposing the raw nerves and small miracles lurking beneath the surface of our daily lives. Inside, Carmen Maria Machado bares her soul in all of its pain and beauty, offering an intimate and profoundly vulnerable look at her own life, love, and sexuality.

“Welcome to the Dream House in this daring new kind of memoir that defies boundaries and boldly discards the conventions of genre.

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