Selected by Emma Watson as the Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick for March/April 2018
A New York Times Editor's Choice
Finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for English-Language Nonfiction
A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection
"A sledgehammer. . . . Her experiments with structure and language . . . 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. Here is a wound. Here is need, naked and unapologetic. Here is a mountain woman, towering in words great and small... 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. 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.
"I am quietly reveling in the profundity of Mailhot’s deliberate transgression in Heart Berries and its perfect results. I love her suspicion of words. I have always been terrified and in awe of the power of words – but Mailhot does not let them silence her in Heart Berries. She finds the purest way to say what she needs to say... [T]he writing is so good it’s hard not to temporarily be distracted from the content or narrative by its brilliance...Perhaps, because this author so generously allows us to be her witness, we are somehow able to see ourselves more clearly and become better witnesses to ourselves." —Emma Watson, Official March/April selection for Our Shared Shelf
Named One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2018 by:
Goodreads
Esquire
Entertainment Weekly
ELLE
Cosmopolitan
Huffington Post
B*tch
NYLON
Buzzfeed
Bustle
The Rumpus
The New York Public Library
TERESE MARIE MAILHOT graduated from the Institute of American Indian Arts with an M.F.A. in fiction, and received a Whiting Award for Nonfiction in 2019.
Table of Contents
1 INDIAN CONDITION
2 HEART BERRIES
3 INDIAN SICK
4 IN A PECAN FIELD
5 YOUR BLACK EYE AND MY BIRTH
6 I KNOW I'LL GO
7 LITTLE MOUNTAIN WOMAN
8 THE LEAVING DEFICIT
9 THUNDER BEING HONEY BEAR
10 INDIAN CONDITION
11 BETTER PARTS
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 13.2.2018 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen | |
Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Jugendbücher ab 12 Jahre | |
Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher | |
Schlagworte | Abuse • Bipolar • blasphemy • books about trauma and recovery • books by indian women • books by indigenous people • books by native people • books by native women • Colonial • Debut • debut memoir • debut writer • Diaspora • Displacement • educated • Emma Watson • emma watson book club • emma watson book club picks • first nations writers • Hunger • Hyperboreal • Indian Country Today • indian horse • Indian women • Indigenous • indigenous families • institute of american indian arts • joan kane • joan naviyuk kane • johnny appleseed • joshua whitehad • Lidia Yuknavitch • life on reservation • Love Story • mailo • Memoir • memoirs by indian women • memoirs by native women • memoirs by women • Milk Black Carbon • morgan jenkins • most anticipated books of 2018 • native heritage • native women • New York Times Besteller • our shared shelf • Postcolonial • PTSD • purdue • Recovery • recovery through writing • Reni Eddo-Lodge • richard wagamese • Roxane Gay • seabird island band • Sherman Alexie • short books • tara westover • Tecumseh Post Doctoral Fellow • tereese • Teresa • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian • there there • the rumpus • This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America • tommy orange • Trauma • unruly bodies • why i'm not longer talking to white people about race • WOC • women writers of color • writers of color • writing as recovery • You Don't Have to Say You Love Me |
ISBN-10 | 1-61902-423-3 / 1619024233 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-61902-423-6 / 9781619024236 |
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