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Stepping Back Inside Carmen Maria Machado's 'Dream House' : Code Switch It's no secret that Code Switch is a team full of book nerds. So this week, we're revisiting one of our favorite book conversations, with author Carmen Maria Machado. Her genre-defying memoir, In the Dream House, tells the story of how she survived intimate partner violence, despite having few models of how to deal with, or even recognize abusive dynamics in queer relationships.

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Stepping Back Inside Carmen Maria Machado's 'Dream House'

Stepping Back Inside Carmen Maria Machado's 'Dream House'

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It's no secret that Code Switch is a team full of book nerds. So this week, we're revisiting one of our favorite book conversations, with author Carmen Maria Machado. Her genre-defying memoir, In the Dream House, tells the story of how she survived intimate partner violence, despite having few models of how to deal with, or even recognize abusive dynamics in queer relationships.

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Carmen Maria Machado's new memoir is called "In The Dreamhouse."

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