Heart Berries - A Memoir
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| Verlag | Bloomsbury Trade |
| Auflage | 2019 |
| Seiten | 144 |
| Format | 13,0 x 19,7 x 0,9 cm |
| Gewicht | 122 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 1526604507 |
| EAN | 9781526604507 |
| Bestell-Nr | 52660450UA |
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSelected by Emma Watson as an Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick
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.< br>
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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A sledgehammer . A mixture of vulnerability and rage, sexual yearning and artistic ambition, swagger and self-mockery . A new model for the memoir New York Times
