{"product_id":"heart-berries-book-terese-marie-mailhot-9781526604408","title":"Heart Berries","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelected by Emma Watson as an Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I loved it' Kate Tempest\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Astounding' Roxane Gay\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A sledgehammer' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeart Berries\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on an Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalised 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe triumphant result is \u003ci\u003eHeart Berries\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMemory isn't exact, but melded to imagination. In \u003ci\u003eHeart Berries\u003c\/i\u003e, Mailhot discovers her own true voice, seizes control of her story, and, in so doing, re-establishes her connection to her family, to her people, and to her place in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49570804957457,"sku":"GOR009206233","price":14.49,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51907810820369,"sku":"GOR014456183","price":13.69,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/152660440X.jpg?v=1751373865","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/products\/heart-berries-book-terese-marie-mailhot-9781526604408","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}