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Carmen Maria Machado: In the Dream House (Hardcover, 2019, Graywolf Press) 5 stars

For years Carmen Maria Machado has struggled to articulate her experiences in an abusive same-sex …

Reflective, Illuminating

5 stars

I connected with the literary styling of this memoir and it had a deep resonance with my experiences. I find indirect prose does a much more effective job at communicating the things in life that can’t be communicated. There’s plenty of directness too, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg on the horizon. The real damage is beneath the surface; invisible, suffocating.