The book is told from her perspective as she recounts her memories of her relationship. She goes on to discuss instances with her previous lovers, leading up to meeting and falling in love with "the woman in the dream house" who domestically abused her.Ĭarmen Maria Machado: Machado is the person the text is centered on. Machado then elaborates on experiences in her childhood and environment while growing up. In the first chapter, Machado reflects on her childhood years and tells a story about her time in grade school. Carmen shares a small two-bedroom apartment with her roommates John and Laura. In the Dream House begins with Carmen Maria Machado's living situation in Iowa City prior to her meeting the Dream House woman. The author never directly names her abuser and only refers to her as "the woman in the dream house". Machado utilizes a different narrative trope for each chapter. It is predominantly a second-person narrative, with Machado referring to her victimized self as "you". The book details Machado's emotionally, mentally, and physically abusive relationship with another woman while studying for her MFA at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in Iowa City, Iowa. It was also longlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. The book was awarded the 2021 Folio Prize and the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction. It was published on November 5, 2019, by Graywolf Press. In the Dream House is a memoir by Carmen Maria Machado.
She is the former Abrams Artist-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania and lives in Brooklyn.Carmenmariamachado.
She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Guggenheim Foundation, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. Her essays, fiction, and criticism have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta, Vogue, This American Life, Harper’s Bazaar, Tin House, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, The Believer, Guernica, Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and elsewhere. In 2018, the New York Times listed Her Body and Other Parties as a member of "The New Vanguard," one of "15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century." She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction, the Brooklyn Public Library Literature Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize. Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the bestselling memoir In the Dream House, the graphic novel The Low, Low Woods, and the award-winning short story collection Her Body and Other Parties.
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