In the Dream House
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Rathbones Folio Prize | 2021 | Winner |
| Rathbones Folio Prize | 2020 | Shortlist |
| Stonewall Book Award | 2020 | Honor |
| Rathbones Folio Prize | 2019 | Shortlist |
| Rathbones Folio Prize | 2017 | Shortlist |
About This Book
Carmen Maria Machado's memoir about an abusive same-sex relationship is structured through forty-odd literary and folkloric genres — the haunted house, the choose-your-own-adventure, the fairy tale. Each chapter offers a different lens on the same domestic horror, asking how we tell stories about abuse when our cultural frameworks have never named or validated it. It won the Rathbones Folio Prize in 2021.
About the Author
Carmen Maria Machado is an American author and essayist born in 1986 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She studied at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and currently serves as Writer in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania. Her debut short story collection Her Body and Other Parties (2017) was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Shirley Jackson Award and won numerous other prizes, establishing her as one of the most exciting new voices in speculative fiction. Read more →
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