Description
In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado?? engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse.
Features:
- A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties.
- Explores the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman.
- Examines how the experience shaped the authors identity.
- Original structure driven by narrative tropes like the haunted house, erotica, and the bildungsroman.
- Critically analyzes legal proceedings, fairy tales, Star Trek, and Disney villains.
- Offers a wrenching, riveting, and innovative look at memoir.