Heart berries : a memoir
Mailhot, Terese Marie2019
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'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.
Main title:
Heart berries : a memoir / Terese Marie Mailhot.
Author:
Mailhot, Terese Marie, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2019.
Collation:
144 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781526604507 (pbk)
Dewey class:
362.19685210092
Language:
English
Subject:
Mailhot, Terese MariePost-traumatic stress disorder -- Patients -- Northwest, Pacific -- BiographyManic-depressive persons -- Northwest, Pacific -- BiographyIndian women -- Northwest, Pacific -- BiographyBiographyBiography & non-fiction proseMemoirsSociety & culture: generalSocial discrimination & equal treatment
BRN:
389533
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