Carmen Maria Machado's "In the Dream House" puts the reader in the shoes of a domestic abuse victim

In the Dream House: A MemoirBy Carmen Maria MachadoGraywolf. 272 pp. $26---This review would be easier to write if Carmen Maria Machado weren't so good. "In the Dream House," her lyric memoir of queer domestic abuse, is more formally inventive than her debut short-story collection, "Her Body and Other Parties," a finalist for the National Book Award.To understand how "In the Dream House" lures the reader along [...]