Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot

Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE

A powerful, poetic memoir of an Indigenous woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Band in the Pacific Northwest--"an illuminating account of grief, abuse and the complex nature of the Native experience . . . at once raw and achingly beautiful" (NPR)

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 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.

Mailhot trusts the reader to understand that memory isn't exact, but melded to imagination, pain, and what we can bring ourselves to accept. Her unique and at times unsettling voice graphically illustrates her mental state. As she writes, she discovers her own true voice, seizes control of her story, and, in so doing, reestablishes her connection to her family, to her people, and to her place in the world.

Seabird Island Band's Terese Marie Mailhot Guernica, Elle, Granta, Mother Jones, Medium, Al Jazeera, the Los Angeles Times, and Best American Essays have all published her writing. Heart Berries: A Memoir is her New York Times bestselling book. Emma Watson chose her book as the Our Shared Shelf Book Club Choice for March/April 2018, and it was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Prize for English-Language Nonfiction. Her work was also chosen for Now Read This, a book club co-hosted by PBS Newshour and The New York Times, in January 2020.

Heart Berries was named an NPR Best Book of the Year, a Library Journal Best Book of the Year, a New York Public Library Best Book of the Year, a Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year, and a Harper's Bazaar Best Book of the Year in 2018. She won the 2019 Whiting Award and the Spalding Prize for the Advancement of Peace and Justice in Writing. She is a creative writing instructor at Purdue University.

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ISBN 13	9781640091603
ISBN 10	1640091602
Title	Heart Berries
Author	Terese Marie Mailhot
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Counterpoint
Year published	2019-04-09
Number of pages	160
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.