Heart berries : a memoir / Terese Marie Mailhot.
Publication details: Toronto, Ont. : Doubleday Canada, 2018.Description: xviii, 154 pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 9780385691147 (hc.)
- Mailhot, Terese
- Mailhot, Terese -- Mental health
- First Nations women -- Seabird Island (First Nation) -- Biography
- First Nations women -- British Columbia -- Biography
- Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Patients -- Northwest, Pacific -- Biography
- Manic-depressive persons -- Northwest, Pacific -- Biography
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"Guileless and refreshingly honest, Terese Mailhot's debut memoir chronicles her struggle to balance the beauty of her Native heritage with the often desperate and chaotic reality of life on the reservation. A powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in British Columbia. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Bipolar II, Terese 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. Terese Mailhot graduated from the Institute of American Indian Arts with an MFA in fiction and is the Saturday Editor at The Rumpus and a columnist for Indian Country Today"--Provided by publisher.
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