
In the Dream House is a unique and extraordinary book.”

I didn’t feel like I was reading a book so much as observing a person’s innermost thoughts. Her words move with a strange kind of urgency, surreal and yet true, like late-night phone calls when the rest of the world is asleep. Machado has a gift for exposing the raw nerves and small miracles lurking beneath the surface of our daily lives.

Inside, Carmen Maria Machado bares her soul in all of its pain and beauty, offering an intimate and profoundly vulnerable look at her own life, love, and sexuality.

“Welcome to the Dream House in this daring new kind of memoir that defies boundaries and boldly discards the conventions of genre.
