Heart Berries
A Memoir
A slim, ferocious memoir of growing up on the Seabird Island Band reservation, written partly from a psychiatric ward.
Written partly while she was hospitalised for PTSD and bipolar II, Terese Marie Mailhot’s memoir moves through a childhood on the Seabird Island Band reservation, a mother who was an activist and a father who was violent, and a love affair she refuses to sentimentalise. It is short, formally strange and written in prose that cuts. Emma Watson chose it for Our Shared Shelf, saying she loves Mailhot’s suspicion of words.
Recommended by 1 Person
As an Amazon Associate, bookstoread.org earns from qualifying purchases. Links to Amazon on this page may earn us a commission at no extra cost to you. Spotted an error on this page? Tell us and we will fix it.