{"id":142772,"date":"2020-02-10T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=142772"},"modified":"2020-02-05T19:49:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T00:49:00","slug":"angelina-reviews-in-the-dream-house-carmen-maria-machado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=142772","title":{"rendered":"Angelina Reviews: In the Dream House &#8211; Carmen Maria Machado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/4393886\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-142773\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/4393886.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/4393886.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/4393886-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/a>It\u2019s no wonder that <a href=\"http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/4393886\"><strong>In the Dream House: A Memoir<\/strong><\/a> by Carmen Maria Machado has received multiple starred reviews, her stylistic choices throughout the book take you on a journey.\u00a0 The dream house that Carmen builds is a house in Bloomington, Indiana where she lives with her girlfriend.\u00a0 The journey leads us through a raw account of love, identity, and psychological abuse.\u00a0 Carmen draws the reader in by replacing \u201cI\u201d with \u201cyou\u201d leaving the reader to imagine each situation is happening to themselves.\u00a0 Each chapter is very short and moves quickly; each chapters heading begins with the phrase \u201cDream House as___\u201d, \u201cDream House as Time Travel\u201d, \u201cDream House as Epiphany\u201d, \u201cDream House as Myth\u201d.\u00a0 With this style choice the author allows herself to build the connection between each section with its title while also creating the continuous metaphor that the dream house, from the outside view, is like a fairy tale place.\u00a0 I highly recommend this memoir to those who enjoy some non-traditional writers that are not afraid to explore the boundaries of a genre.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;There is a Quichua riddle: El que me nombra, me rompe.\u00a0 Whatever names me, breaks me.\u00a0 The solution, of course, is &#8216;silence.&#8217;\u00a0 But the truth is, anyone who know your name can break you in two.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n\u2014Carmen Maria Machado from <em>In the Dream House<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s no wonder that In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado has received multiple starred reviews, her stylistic choices throughout the book take you on a journey.\u00a0 The dream house that Carmen builds is a house in Bloomington, Indiana where she lives with her girlfriend.\u00a0 The journey leads us through a raw&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":142773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-angelina-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/4393886.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-B8M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142772"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142776,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142772\/revisions\/142776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/142773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}