Machado then takes on various genres, literary tropes, and plot devices and writes chapters and vignettes in those styles. Books Best Sellers New Releases Children's Books Textbooks Australian Authors Kindle Books Audiobooks 1-16 of 39 results for Books : Carmen Maria Machado Skip to main search results Carmen Maria Machado's debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, was a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Brooklyn Public Library Literature Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize. Carmen Maria Machado’s “In the Dream House” is unlikely to resemble anything you’ve read before. A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties 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. She has penned several widely acclaimed books and short story collections in her career. Carmen Maria Machado is a reputed essayist, author, critic, and short story writer from America, who likes to write fantasy, horror, and science fiction stories. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile … Carmen Maria Machado writes about her experiences in an abusive lesbian relationship using metaphor— likening her relationship and ex-girlfriend to a house.