{"product_id":"dog-days","title":"Dog Days","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"A stunning memoir.\"--Jennifer Szalai, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eA NEW YORK TIMES AND LIT HUB MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK - A JUNE ABA INDIE NEXT PICK\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eDog Days\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e unfolds in the long shadow of freak violence--where language stammers, time loops, and the body remembers what the mind can't.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 2009, Emily LaBarge and her family were held hostage while on vacation. A crocheted blanket was placed over her head while \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMrs. Doubtfire\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMulholland Drive\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIt's a Wonderful Life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Virginia Woolf to Janet Malcolm--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDog Days\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Emily LaBarge","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":53122860024125,"sku":null,"price":26.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/81fFf5qreLL._SL1500.avif?v=1790010269","url":"https:\/\/thebookarchive.ca\/products\/dog-days","provider":"The Book Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}