Carmen Maria Machado

Summaries of books by Carmen Maria Machado.

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

Carmen Maria Machado · 2017

Eight stories where bodies, medicine and old fairy tales get taken apart, with a green ribbon running through the whole book.

2,997-word summary · 13 min read

In the Dream House

Carmen Maria Machado · 2019

Machado retells an abusive same-sex relationship through haunted house tropes. A daring memoir about harm, memory, and queer silence.

2,903-word summary · 13 min read