IN THE DREAM HOUSE

In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machados engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissect ion of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a c harismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming.And it s that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope?the haunted house, er otica, the...[Read more]