RaveEntropy... a hauntingly beautiful memoir ... just as much a tale of warning as it is a catharsis ... Machado is able to effectively explain the difficulty in examining the toxicity of her relationship through an unbiased lens. How could she save herself when she didn’t even realize she needed saving? ... In The Dream House sheds light on the issue of queerness being associated with ambiguity and romanticized fantasy. Without the stories of queer writers, their existence is reduced to clichés formed by a perceivably straight society. In order to combat these widespread ideas, Machado examines her sexuality as another complexity of simply being human.
