A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Selected by Emma Watson as the Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick for March/April 2018 A New York Times Editor\'s Choice A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection "A sledgehammer. "I am quietly reveling in the profundity of Mailhot\'s deliberate.
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.
Her unique and at times unsettling voice graphically illustrates her mental state.
Mailhot trusts the reader to understand that memory isn\'t exact, but melded to imagination, pain, and what we can bring ourselves to accept.
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.
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.
What Mailhot has accomplished in this exquisite book is brilliance both raw and refined." --Roxane Gay, author of Hunger Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic Memoir of a woman\'s coming of age on the Seabird Island Band in the Pacific Northwest.
Here is a mountain woman, towering in words great and small...
Here is need, naked and unapologetic.
Here is a wound. are in the service of trying to find new ways to think about the past, trauma, repetition and reconciliation, which might be a way of saying a new model for the memoir." --Parul Sehgal, The New York Times "Heart Berries by Terese Mailhot is an astounding Memoir in essays. . .
Her experiments with structure and language . . . .
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Selected by Emma Watson as the Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick for March/April 2018 A New York Times Editor\'s Choice A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection "A sledgehammer
