RaveThe Women’s Review of Books...[a] gripping, unconventional deconstruction of a past, emotionally
abusive queer relationship. ... Since her 2017 debut...Machado has been lauded for her ability to bend genre, for the way she writes just speculatively enough to entertain, yet keep you looking over your shoulder to check that the door is locked. In In the Dream House, she takes genre further: she upends it, she queers it, she breaks it open and puts it back together again. She defines it for herself. She rejects the conventions of memoir ... the ex-girlfriend’s volatility thrums in the background, a steady pulse of power and control, and you are there with Machado, both victim and witness ... I weep because it seems absurd that no one has written about abuse in queer relationships like this before. Mercifully, In the Dream House fills an aching void.
