In the Dream House: A Memoir

In the Dream House: A MemoirA revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award winning author of Her Body and Other Parties In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machados 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

and a heroine I was desperately rooting for

The Thunderhead is the perfect ruler of a perfect world

Emile may seem timid and shy on the outside

Felicity decides she must find the killer--and learns that she is not the only one hunting him

Joan tries to settle into her new life

she will continue hiding her extraordinary intelligence behind a mask of mediocrity

Nora’s life is about to get a rewrite…

exhilarating

with its comic animal fables

and the people who stick to your ribs

but she also consumes his thoughts in a way no woman ever has

until the final wishes of a feisty old woman send Clover on a trip across the country to uncover a forgotten love story––and perhaps