{"product_id":"dog-days-9798893380477","title":"Dog Days","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDog Days\u003c\/i\u003e unfolds in the long shadow of freak violence--where language stammers, time loops, and the body remembers what the mind can't.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"An incandescent book, a landmark in how to bring language to bear on the unspeakable. Beautiful, uncompromising, rigorous and totally original.\"-- \u003cb\u003eOlivia Laing, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Lonely City\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 2009, Emily LaBarge and her family were held hostage while on vacation. A crocheted blanket was placed over her head while \u003ci\u003eMrs. Doubtfire\u003c\/i\u003e and \"Agnus Dei\" played on repeat.In the years that follow, a therapist encourages her to lie 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. She tries to find \"the good story\" neat, polite, reassuring. But what happens to the things the good story leaves out?A high-voltage synthesis of memoir, criticism, and psychoanalytic theory--drawing upon film and writing from \u003ci\u003eMulholland Drive\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eIt's a Wonderful Life\u003c\/i\u003e, Virginia Woolf to Janet Malcolm--\u003ci\u003eDog Days\u003c\/i\u003e writes into this question. How do language and institutions constrain and distort our understanding of trauma, violence, and care? How might we write otherwise, telling a story, and its aftermath, on our own terms? The result is not only a prose work but also a practice: an insistence on more radical, more complex forms of engagement, a search for the place where writing becomes a way of surviving.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-17944755\"\u003eEmily Labarge\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Transit Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/19\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798893380477\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO026000\"\u003eMemoirs\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LIT\"\u003eLiterary Criticism\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LIT004020\"\u003eAmerican | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO038000\"\u003eSurvival\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily LaBarge\u003c\/b\u003e is a Canadian writer based in London. Her essays and criticism have appeared in \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe London Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFr\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eieze\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. She is a regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e4Columns\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eDog Days\u003c\/i\u003e is her first book. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Transit Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46821375148171,"sku":"9798893380477","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/5100\/7115\/files\/img_543bb8de-d8a7-4900-bc6b-ecd5048b5170.jpg?v=1777313661","url":"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/dog-days-9798893380477","provider":"CA Corrections Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}