A review by bookreviewswithkb
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

let me first just say, this book is incredible

this is everything i love in a memoir. Machado explores such an emotionally difficult topic examining her own personal experiences in a toxic, abusive relationship and uses these experiences to also talk about wider societal issues of silencing queer people in same sex relationships experiences of domestic abuse. the way she explores how we come to tolerate suffering, how we hold onto the pain when we have no outlet, how even when we let it loose there are those who are quick to try to put it back in its place… the language is beautiful and haunting and poetic and powerful 

i knew i had to read this after seeing it on so many of the self-created top 10 books of the 21st century posts and you all were right

i would put In the Dream House in the same category as I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying (different topic but similar brutally gutting style of writing) and if y’all don’t read it soon i swear 😫