In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado: An Excerpt The New York Times
Table Of Content Author Interviews Books Carmen Maria Machado’s new memoir is a portrait of a relationship in fragments Read Me: How Carmen Maria Machado Confronted Her Domestic Abuse To Write Her Acclaimed New Memoir I'm really interested in this from the spectrum of human behavior that exists between those two poles, how shortsighted and narrow it is to imagine that you need a narrative to be a certain thing in order to give it weight. And it's not enough just to say, "This happened to me and I'm going to tell you what happened to me." I actually thought that I had sort of psychically, mentally, emotionally kind of come over this big hump, and this whole process of writing this book has just dragged me right back into that head space. The prevailing sort of anxiety about this book is not about sex and it's not about polyamory and it's not about queerness. It's more about my own embarrassment and my own humiliation. Appropriately, Machado apologiz