![]() Machado calls her memoir In The Dream House to show the transformation of the cabin she shared with her ex-girlfriend from the home of her dreams to a house of nightmares. In this chapter, Machado portrays domestic abuse as imprisonment. Listening to Machado's chapter “Choose Your Own Adventure ” from her memoir In The Dream House resonated with my own pain, uncertainty and isolation. My aunt’s physical, emotional and mental violence created a monster in me what she did hurt me so deeply that it still haunts me and will not let me leave in peace. I was a minor and therefore not able to do anything until my mom came from my home country, and none of my family members outside of her household wanted to help because they did not believe that she would do such things. She always put me down in front of all her other kids, and I was given chores while others were outside enjoying the weather. I lived with my aunt and a family of five for five years, during which she physically and mentally abused me. I was only eleven years old when I arrived in the United States from the Dominican Republic to live with one of my mother's sisters. ![]() Carmen Maria Machado’s chapter “Dream House as Choose Your Own Adventure ” from her novel In The Dream House read by Zoë Winters as Act Two: You Can’t Go Your Own Way of episode 703-“Stuck!” of the radio program This American Life. ![]()
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