Never Leave the Dogs Behind: A Memoir

In her second memoir about her extraordinary life (following Nowhere for Very Long), Madia delivers another poignant book, this time focusing on the aftermath of her divorce. Madia rose to fame for sharing details of her nomadic life, living out of an orange van named Bertha with her dogs and her now ex-husband in Utah. Then she hit rock bottom as, amid the pandemic, she contended with both vicious online vitriol and separation and divorce from her husband, who was addicted to alcohol. With only her four dogs—Bucket, Dagwood, Birdie, and Banjo—as support and comfort, she purchased a plot of land in Utah and retreated from the world. Narrating her own story, Madia details the deep anger, despair, hopelessness, and wonder she finds as she tries to pull her life back together in isolation. Listeners will cry and ache alongside her as, speaking through her tears, she shares every painful step it took to crawl back to herself.