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About Heart Berries: A Memoir
Product Description A powerful, poetic memoir of an Indigenous woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Band in the Pacific Northwest—this New York Times bestseller and Emma Watson Book Club pick is “an illuminating account of grief, abuse and the complex nature of the Native experience . . . at once raw and achingly beautiful (NPR). 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. Review A New York Times bestseller Selected by Emma Watson as the Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick for March/April 2018 A PBS Newshour/New York Times Now Read This Book Club PickA New York Times Editor's Choice Winner of the Spalding Prize for the Promotion of Peace and Justice in LiteratureFinalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for English–Language NonfictionA Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection An NPR Best Book of the Year “There are so many sentences I had to read again because they were so true and beautiful. It’s a memoir of pure poetry and courage and invention. Whenever I think about it, my heart clenches with love.” —Cheryl Strayed, The New York Times Book Review “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 . . . If Heart Berries is any indication, the work to come will not just surface suppressed stories; it might give birth to new forms.” — The New York Times “A fierce and poetic memoir that grips you from the start and never lets go. Each page, paragraph and sentence is more gut–wrenching than the one before it. An illuminating account of grief, abuse and the complex nature of the Native experience, it is at once raw and achingly beautiful. Terese Mailhot is a truly fearless writer, and this little book is nothing short of a gift.” —Juan Vidal, NPR, A Best Book of the Year “Sometimes a writer’s voice is so distinctive, so angry and messy yet wise, that her story takes on the kind of urgency that makes you turn pages faster and faster. Terese Marie Mailhot has one of those voices, and her memoir about being raised on a Canadian reservation and coming to understand what it means to be an indigenous person in modern times is breathtaking.” — Esquire “Mailhot examines the circumstances of her life—replete with grief, abuse, and structural injustice—with searing honesty and forceful language in her tiny but powerful debut. Steeped in several generations' worth of history, Heart Berries demands to be re–read over and over, every return yielding a new insight.” —Julie Kosin, Harper's Bazaar “Eloquent and seething . . . Exquisite.” —Leslie Jamison, The Paris Review “Terse and tough and fierce and honest, Mailhot is an essential new voice in the Native literary world, as well as in the world at large.” —Tommy Orange, GQ “A luminous, poetic memoir.” — Entertainment Weekly “Puts an undeniable spotlight on the trials and oppression of modern Native wom
