RaveBookTribLaBarge challenges the idea that writing a ‘trauma narrative’ is an act of healing, portraying it instead as a messy unravelling with her experimental and unique prose ... Dog Days’ disorienting narrative deals with the difficulty of piecing together into a cohesive narrative and how easy it is to overanalyze and shift your story to fit into the widely accepted studies and stories of traumas, large and small ... As a result, Dog Days becomes less of a memoir, instead resembling something between a cultural criticism, an essay and an account of LaBarge’s experience unpacking and writing this book.
RaveBook TribHudes tells a complicated story of womanhood and the built-up rage it takes to break down harmful generational cycles ... Hudes’s writing is lyrical, violent and raw ... A complex story that is entirely morally gray. It is a story of reclamation, but also of sacrifice and the good, the bad and the ugly that can come from finding yourself.
