In the Dream House

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]

In the Dream House
First edition cover
AuthorCarmen Maria Machado
Audio read byCarmen Maria Machado[1]
Cover artistAlex Eckman-Lawn (art)[2]
Kimberly Glyder (design)[2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectDomestic violence
GenreMemoir
PublisherGraywolf Press
Publication date
November 5, 2019
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages264
ISBN978-1-64445-003-1
Websitecarmenmariamachado.com/in-the-dream-house

The book has been longlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.[9]

Summary

The book details Machado's 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".[10]

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 41 reviews: 30 "Rave" reviews and 11 "Positive" reviews.[11]

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."[12]

Publishers Weekly gave the book a positive review, calling it "an affecting, chilling memoir about domestic abuse."[10]

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."[13]

References
  1. "In the Dream House (Audiobook) by Carmen Maria Machado". Audible. Retrieved December 29, 2019.
  2. "In the Dream House". Graywolf Press. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  3. Canfield, David (November 5, 2019). "How Carmen Maria Machado wrote the best memoir of the year". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  4. Reese, Hope (November 7, 2019). "'I Was Trapped Forever In This Present Tense': Carmen Maria Machado on Surviving Abuse". Longreads. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  5. Garcia-Navarro, Lulu (November 3, 2019). "In The 'Dream House,' Carmen Maria Machado Recounts Nightmares". NPR. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  6. 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.
  7. Carothers, Vera (November 7, 2019). "Down to the Marrow: An Interview with Carmen Maria Machado". Columbia Journal. Columbia University. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  8. "2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals Longlist". Locus Online. October 1, 2019. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  9. "Nonfiction Book Review: In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado". Publishers Weekly. August 8, 2019. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  10. "Book Marks reviews of In The Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado". Book Marks.
  11. "In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado". Kirkus Reviews. July 8, 2019. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  12. 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.
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