A powerful ghost story about transformative healing. I could not put it down. Beautiful.
Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour, (List Price: $11.99, Rocky Pond Books, 9780593108994, January 2022)
Reviewed by Abbe Townsend, Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh, North Carolina
Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour Read More »
An engrossing and necessary work of memoir, queer perspective, and groundbreaking from examining a history of abuse through a series of prismatic episodes dissecting road trips, meetings with parents, Disney villains, and gaslighting. Stumbling through each new layer you delve deeper into the unshakeable, irrational hold of abuse. At times what seemed like romance transforms in the next page into folklore, raw emotion, queer theory, criticism, and horror. I am immensely grateful for the work Carmen Maria Machado has done in writing as generous a book as In the Dream House.
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado, (List Price: $18, Graywolf Press, 9781644450383, December 2020)
Reviewed by Luis Correa, Avid Bookshop in Athens, Georgia
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado Read More »
