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.
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