My debut memoir, In the Dream House,is available from Graywolf Press (US) and Strange Light (Canada), and Serpent's Tail (UK).
”Welcome to the House of Machado. Proceed directly into the forbidden room; enjoy the view as the floor gives way.” —Parul Sehgal, The New York Times
One of the best-reviewed nonfiction titles of 2019
”Welcome to the House of Machado. Proceed directly into the forbidden room; enjoy the view as the floor gives way.” —Parul Sehgal, The New York Times
One of the best-reviewed nonfiction titles of 2019
A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties. In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. 'Don't you ever write about this,' Carmen Maria Machado's girlfriend tells her, referring to an explosion of verbal abuse. The title of Machado's In the Dreamhouse is a metaphor for the.
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An LA Times Bestseller Onenote show notebooks on left.
Winner of the Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Nonfiction / Winner of the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction / Finalist for the Stonewall Book Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award / Finalist for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing / Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
Best Book of the Year:
The New Yorker / TIME Magazine / New York Times / NPR / Publishers Weekly / BookPage / Vulture / Autostraddle / LitHub / Vogue / Kirkus / Entertainment Weekly / Harper’s Bazaar / The Atlantic / Paris Review / Vogue / Washington Post / A.V. Club
Best Book of the Year:
The New Yorker / TIME Magazine / New York Times / NPR / Publishers Weekly / BookPage / Vulture / Autostraddle / LitHub / Vogue / Kirkus / Entertainment Weekly / Harper’s Bazaar / The Atlantic / Paris Review / Vogue / Washington Post / A.V. Club
Best Memoir of the Decade:
LitHub / Paste / Autostraddle
LitHub / Paste / Autostraddle
Carmen Machado
Forthcoming Foreign Editions:
Brazilian / German / Italian / Norwegian / Polish / Russian / Spanish
You can purchase In the Dream House at your local independent bookstore, or from:
Graywolf Press / Bookstore Link / IndieBound
Powell’s / Amazon / Barnes & Noble
The audiobook is available here.
Brazilian / German / Italian / Norwegian / Polish / Russian / Spanish
You can purchase In the Dream House at your local independent bookstore, or from:
Graywolf Press / Bookstore Link / IndieBound
Powell’s / Amazon / Barnes & Noble
The audiobook is available here.