Chacón is a co-founder and executive director of Alianza Americas. The result is a powerful book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be. 0:08 Carmen Maria Machado, author of Dream House, a memoir bending genres and perspectives, about her experience with abuse during a same-sex relationship. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, fairy tales, Star Trek and Disney villains, as well as iconic works of film and fiction, infusing all with her characteristic wit, playfulness and openness to enquiry. In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado: Boulevard of Broken Dreams Advertisement Sayantan Ghosh 16:37 36-year-old author and essayist Carmen Machado is best known for Her. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing experience with a charismatic but volatile woman, this is a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse.Įach chapter views the relationship through a different lens, as Machado holds events up to the light and examines them from distinct angles. In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad. 'Daring, chilling, and unlike anything else you've ever read' Esquire
'Excruciatingly honest and yet vibrantly creative' Irish Times In the Dream House Carmen Maria Machado € 15.99 This item arrived at our Amsterdam store within the past 8 weeks If ordered before 12:00h, this title will be in our store within 24 hours.
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