First published 2019
Carmen Maria Machado peels back the layers of a volatile, abusive relationship. As she relives her harrowing experience, Machado challenges societal assumptions about queer love, exposing the harsh realities of psychological abuse. Through a boldly innovative structure, she casts a critical eye on everything from fairy tales to Star Trek, creating a wrenching, revelatory portrait of a survivor's journey.
Genres: abuse, autobiography, contemporary, biography-memoir, 21st-century
Vibes: dark, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: United States
272 pages · Paperback · Graywolf Press
Content warnings: abuse, domestic-violence, emotional-abuse