Review: Emily LaBarge's "Dog Days" Explores Trauma as a Narrative Challenge
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A review of Emily LaBarge's memoir "Dog Days" (Transit Books, 2026), which explores how trauma's intensity and inherently unknowable nature drive the author to attempt communicating it through narrative. The review examines LaBarge's literary approach to rendering traumatic experience on the page.
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· 3 pulled'[L]IE IN EXACTLY the same position, just like how it happened, for as long as it happened, and for as long as it takes until the pain comes out […] otherwise it will never leave.'
In Emily LaBarge's new memoir, trauma's intensity and unknowable nature impel her to try to communicate it.
The reader is given neither context for nor emotional access to the happening, later known as 'The Event,' before becoming immersed in its pervasive occupation of LaBarge's mind
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