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Heart Berries: A Memoir

✍ Scribed by Mailhot, Terese Marie


Book ID
109706405
Publisher
Counterpoint
Year
2017
Tongue
English
Weight
251 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781619023345

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✦ 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...


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