RaveThe Toronto Review (CAN)LaBarge and her family were victims of a home invasion ... Dog Days is a roving, erudite text that follows LaBarge as she tries to confront, make sense of, and craft narrative meaning of the experience ... Structurally and syntactically, the book bears close resemblance to one of Carson’s essays or Maggie Nelson’s Bluets ... LaBarge’s analyses are so clean and compelling that she is almost over my shoulder, directing my attention here and then there ... Dog Days doesn’t come to definitive conclusions about trauma or its narrative shape, nor does LaBarge ever suggest there will be any, even just for herself. But by the end, one feels they know something of LaBarge, her life, her taste, her brilliance.
