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Prologue - 12

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House. Graywolf Press, 2019.

• The memoir, at its core, is an act of resurrection.

• Memoirists re-create the past and reconstruct dialogue. They summon meaning from events that have long been dormant.

• The memoir is written in second person narration.

• With her memoir, Machado enters into the archive that domestic abuse between partners who share a gender identity is both possible and not uncommon, to speak into the silence.

• Machado clarifies to readers that the Dream House was a real place; it was next to a forest and at the rim of a sward.

• It had a foundation, though rumors of the dead buried within it are a fiction.

• The landlord was not a man but an entire university.

• Machado repeats to readers that it is important to remember...

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