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Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House wins 2020 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction

In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming.

See here for the full announcement:
https://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/2020-winners/

Carmen Maria Machado accepts the 2020 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Nonfiction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgk_C4rHpAI