![]() ![]() Obviously I’m really honoured to have received awards from the queer community, but I feel like this is a story that applies to a lot of people. “So I feel excited that this is a large mainstream prize. ![]() “This book was nominated for, and has won, a few prizes, and they’ve all been gay prizes, or prizes with a queer lens, and I felt a little weird about that – about why the book was only being thought of as a gay book,” said Machado. Machado said she was “incredibly excited and honoured” to win the Folio prize, which is open to all works of literature, regardless of form, and to English-language writers from around the world. I toss the stone of my story into a vast crevice measure the emptiness by its small sound.” “I enter into the archive that domestic abuse between partners who share a gender identity is both possible and not uncommon, and that it can look something like this,” she writes, as the memoir opens. In the Dream House sets out to address this. Machado, 34, has said that she found it hard to make sense of her own experience, because she had not encountered narratives of queer domestic abuse before. But it is its challenging of memoir form that is even more impressive.” This already makes this book substantial. “This is not often documented in literature. “Machado documents, in great detail, the descent of lives into obsessiveness, possession and, eventually, abuse among the queer community,” he said. ![]()
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