The US author says In the Dream House, which has won the £30,000 prize, opens up the rarely broached subject of abuse within the LGBTQ+ community
The American author Carmen Maria Machado has won the £30,000 Rathbones Folio prize for her memoir In the Dream House, which examines the domestic abuse she was subjected to by her ex-girlfriend.
In the Dream House looks at the relationship through different literary genres and tropes, from classic romance to ghost story, unreliable narrator to pathetic fallacy. Judge and poet Roger Robinson said it gives “a feeling of traumatic fragmentation, so you have that constant tension as to what might be revealed next, like a veritable house of horror ride”.
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