PositiveChicago Review of BooksA memoir, yes, though one could more aptly describe it as a memoir exploded ... Resists the kind of scriptotherapeutic writing that attempts to lead its author towards catharsis, or something akin to closure. What LaBarge offers instead is a strikingly polyphonic scattering of traumatic, fragmented experiences, both psychological and physical ... For those seeking a temporally lucid narrative with a clear beginning, middle, and end, Dog Days is best to be avoided ... A pleasurably disorienting document of survival.
