A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the Whiting Award for
Non-Fiction Selected by Emma Watson as an Our Shared Shelf Book Club
Pick 'I loved it' Kate Tempest 'Astounding' Roxane Gay 'A
sledgehammer' New York Times Heart Berries 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. 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. Memory isn't exact, but
melded to imagination. In Heart Berries, 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.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781526604415
Publisert
2020
Utgave
1. utgave
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Vendor
Bloomsbury Publishing
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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