 Hi, I'm Kate and this is Bite Size Book Review. Today I will be reviewing In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado. This book is a memoir. In this book, Machado explores her experience in an abusive relationship with another woman through vignettes, genre tropes, hard research, and a poetic prose writing style. Absolutely loved the wide range of styles and tropes that Machado employed to explore her experience and to investigate similar experiences throughout history. I loved how raw and how horribly, painfully honest she was about telling her story. She does not shy away from the emotions, the deep, dark emotions that these experiences and then talking about these experiences bring up. And she talks about psychological and emotional and even some physical abuses that women, both straight and queer, have gone through and she brings them to light. There is literally nothing I don't like about this book. It was unreal in its excellence and just beautiful delivery of the content that she was trying to express. I gave it five out of five stars and I would recommend that everybody read it. This is a queer woman of color writing about her experiences with domestic abuse and I think everybody should listen to her story. This book is a brutal in its honesty and I think that we as a community, as a society need to be more comfortable in delving into these dark emotions and how terrifying and uncomfortable these experiences are obviously to have but also just to hear about secondhand. And of course, even more so in the queer community because being queer does not absolve us or exempt us from becoming abusers or having abusers. We need to make sure that abused queer women are able to tell their stories about their abuse. So I love this book completely. It is absolutely my favorite book of 2020 so far. Thank you so much for watching and have a great day.