Book Exploder: Carmen Maria Machado - In the Dream House

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  One note before we start.

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  This episode includes discussion and descriptions of domestic abuse,

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  so please take care before going ahead.

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  You're listening to Book Exploder,

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  where authors break down a passage from their work to show us how they write.

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  I'm Rishi K. Shirwe.

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  And I'm Susan Orlean.

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  Today, I'm speaking to Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House.

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  So In the Dream House is one of the few nonfiction books that we're doing for our series.

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  How did you end up picking this one?

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  Well, I think that this book would stand examination in just about any genre,

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  whether it's fiction, nonfiction, poetry, gender studies.

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  It's a remarkable book and memoir about a very, very complicated, destructive relationship.

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  In the Dreamhouse was named one of the best books of 2019 by NPR and The New York Times and Time magazine.

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  And it won several prizes, including the Folio Prize in 2021.

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  The book is broken into many, many short sections which have.

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  their own tone, their own internal logic.

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  And I first encountered it reading a section that I believe was excerpted somewhere,

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  and I just thought, I need to have this book immediately.

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  I need to read this book.

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