Chicas Latinas' June Book Club "In the Dream House: A Memoir"

Chicas Latinas de Sacramento's June bookclub read is "In the Dream House: A Memoir" by Carmen Maria Machado.

In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming.

And it’s that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope―the haunted house, erotica, the bildungsroman―through which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships.

June #CLBookClub Discussion Schedule:

• 6/3 @ 7PM PST
• 6/10 @ 7PM
• 6/17 @ 7PM
• 6/24 @ 7PM

**Register once to join all 4 meetings!

Details: Reading schedule will be sent to registered participants no-later than May 25, with Zoom link. Club participants meet virtually on Thursdays to discuss the assigned reading section for that week.

Join us each Thursday during the month of June, at 7pm, to discuss "In the Dream House." Registrants can access instructions and links in "Online Event" section of this Eventbrite event.

Deadline to register is 5/31.

Please support local and/or BIPOC businesses!

Purchase your book from a California Latinx retailer:

• Booklandia
• Tia Chuchas
• Other Books LA

Purchase local: Underground Books (2814 35th St, Sacramento)

Chicas Latinas de Sacramento pivoted its regular volunteer and giving activities during the pandemic to offer FREE weekly virtual programming and events to our community members -- providing a space for reliable connection and healing. Please consider making a tax deductible donation to support our efforts, so that we may continue our work and further our mission!