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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. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming.
And it’s that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope―the haunted house, erotica, the bildungsroman―through which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships.
Machado’s dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit, playfulness, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, fairy tales, Star Trek, and Disney villains, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.
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##"Dream House as Choose Your Own Adventure". No matter what you choose though, you're trapped in this abusive relationship and there's no lighter alternative. Carmen Maria Machado is brilliant.
评分##Inventive structure of an abusive relationship told in many genres and devices (road trip, Chekhov's gun, queer villain)--had very low expectations of the 'gimmick' but turns out to be brilliant and fluid. An antidote to silence of queer abuse (is it homophobia if the abuser gets away with abusing the voiceless), entering the canon of folklore
评分##喜欢作者解构这个题材的方式，很有启发性和想象力。文本语言缺点儿灵气。
评分我们queers也是人，当然也会PUA和家庭暴力。夹叙夹议，语言优美而脆弱，但还是感觉叙事得星星点点、铺垫不太够，令人有些感同身受，但又有些支离破碎、进展有些突然（可能也是篇幅小的缘故）。可能是回忆录的原因，女主的视角非常限定，所以显得女朋友就像一个没有心的神经病和怪物。我写文章时也常常这样，丰沛地表达自己的视角和情感，以及对周围人言行的无措和不解，对身边的信息感到很passive、overwhelmed。我最近渐渐觉得这其实是作者本身不大能观察和分析预测和总结周围人行为语言和性格的缘故，换句话说就是有点self-focused、情商比较一般。我也想提高一下。
评分##hauntingly beautiful
评分##琐碎到甚至像在读微博合集。那些破碎的情绪和零散的事件，一点一点构成 Dream House 里的那个她。选择逃离的过程是痛苦的，可只有切断过去才会迎来新来的开始。queer 也是普通人
评分##Fine
评分##碎片化的回忆录，非常规但是并不难follow 也挺容易理解的，喜欢书中的很多reference
评分##hauntingly beautiful
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