Heart berries a memoir

✍ Scribed by Alexie, Sherman;Kane, Joan;Mailhot, Terese Marie

• Publisher: Counterpoint
• Year: 2018;2017
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"An epic take—an Iliad for the indigenous. It is the story of one First Nation woman and her geographic, emotional, and theological search for meaning in a colonial world...Terese is a world-changing talent, and I recommend this book with 100% of my soul." —Sherman Alexie, author of You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. 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. 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...

✦ Subjects

Indian women--Northwest, Pacific;Manic-depressive illness--Patients--Northwest, Pacific;Post-traumatic stress disorder--Patients--Northwest, Pacific;Fiktionale Darstellung;Mailhot, Terese Marie -- Health;Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Patients -- Northwest, Pacific -- Biography;Manic-depressive illness -- Patients -- Northwest, Pacific -- Biography;Indian women -- Northwest, Pacific -- Biography