Dog Days ripping and rippling through “tilling

ripping and rippling through “tilling sulky cockle shoals” to circle what remains

Born in Chile in 1948

How do you cope with the threat of them recurring

Each character lives with the memory and fear of the violence and torture inflicted upon them by the Turkish secret police and army

— Maria Sledmere

Dog Days ripping and rippling through “tillingby Emily LaBarge Peninsula Press Paperback, 2025 256 pages 'The Good Story may be every story you write, but the Good Story is also not your story.' Dog Days considers why we tell stories the way we do, and how we might tell them otherwise. Combining memoir and essay, cultural criticism and literary experiment, it begins with a personal trauma the account of how Emily LaBarge and her family were held hostage during the Christmas holidays of 2009 but