The dreamhouse is the relationship in which both of them dwelt. The memoir describes the story of a talented graduate student still inexperienced with her sexuality who meets “the woman in the dream house.” The woman in the dreamhouse refers to an emotional and physically abusive lover. To me, your first book challenged the literary illegitimacy of genre tropes, while In The Dream House redefines what a memoir can do. What I found was an exhilarating read, a tour de force of structural originality second only to the unflinching honesty in the face of abuse, further deepening your already indelible imprint on modern story telling. So, when I opened up, In The Dream House, a memoir chronicling an abusive lesbian relationship during your MFA, I wasn’t sure what I would find. I fell in love with your ability to use folklore and speculative tropes within the larger literary conversations of gender, sexuality, genre, and violence. I was first introduced to your writing, like so many others, through the collection of short stories: Her Body and Other Parties. Thank you for writing, In The Dream House.
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