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Kimberly Pollard

Carmen Maria Machado

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  • Carmen Maria Machado, Photo Credit: Art Streiber / AUGUST
  • Kimberly Pollard

Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the bestselling memoir In the Dream House and the short story collection Her Body and Other Parties. She has been a …

In the Dream House

Book Review by Kimberly Pollard

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado. Graywolf Press, 2019. 264 pages.

Those familiar with Carmen Maria Machado’s work have become comfortable with the distasteful, with the unfamiliar, and with the pseudo-absurd. Her first short story collection, ​Her Body …