![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mailhot trusts the reader to understand that memory isn't exact, but melded to imagination, pain, and what we can bring ourselves to accept. The triumphant result is Heart Berries, a memorial for Mailhot's mother, a social worker and activist who had a thing for prisoners a story of reconciliation with her father-an abusive drunk and a brilliant artist-who was murdered under mysterious circumstances and an elegy on how difficult it is to love someone while dragging the long shadows of shame. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma. ![]() Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. This is a writer for our times who simultaneously blows up time." -Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Book of Joan "Shot through with funny angry beautiful brutal truths. What Mailhot has accomplished in this exquisite book is brilliance both raw and refined." -Roxane Gay, author of Hunger Here is a mountain woman, towering in words great and small. "Heart Berries by Terese Mailhot is an astounding memoir in essays. Heart Berries: A Memoir Terese Marie Mailhot € 17.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time to our store for this item will be 3-5 working days. ![]()
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