In the Dream House chronicles Carmen Maria Machado’s time in an abusive queer relationship and how she got out. Much of Machado’s story is told in second person (you/your), an unconventional choice for memoir, and a deliberate technique by the author to create distance from and perspective on her past self. The effect this had on me as a reader is that I was easily able to slip my past self into her past self’s shoes, almost as if she was telling me my own story.
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
