In a dream house book6/21/2023 This updated 2016 edition contains new content, with Craig Higginson exploring the background to The Dream House, his varied experiences in a farmhouse in KwaZulu-Natal and the subsequent and poignant motivations for this moving novel. Written with dark wit, a stark poetic style and extraordinary tenderness, this is a story about the state of a nation and a deep meditation on memory, ageing, meaning, family, love and loss. So begins The Dream House, Craig Higginson’s riveting and unforgettable novel set in the Midlands of KwaZulu-Natal. At the entrance to the long dirt driveway, a car appears and pauses – pointed towards the house like a silver bullet, ticking with heat. On its surface, the book recounts a psychologically abusive relationship that marked Machado's life in many. A young woman – called ‘the barren one’ behind her back – dreams of love, while an ageing headmaster contemplates the end of his life. The book is told through vignettes of varying length, often jumping forward and backward in time to piece together a tale of trauma, abuse, and most. Carmen Maria Machado's In the Dream House is the most innovative memoir I've ever read. A woman in a wheelchair sorts through boxes while her husband clambers around the old demolished buildings, wondering where the animals have gone. Three small graves have been dug in the front garden, the middle one lying empty. A farmhouse is being reproduced a dozen times, with slight variations, throughout a valley.
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