In the Dream House

Yes. In the Dream House is a memoir: Carmen Maria Machado recounts her own experience of psychological and emotional abuse in a same-sex relationship during her time at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, with the "Dream House" of the title being her former partner's real home in Bloomington, Indiana. Each chapter examines the relationship through a different narrative form (the haunted house, the road-trip movie, the bildungsroman) rather than a conventional chronological retelling.

In the Dream House won the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction and the 2021 Rathbones Folio Prize. It was also named a 2020 Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award Honor Book and was longlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.