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Heart berries : a memoir / Terese Marie Mailhot.

Summary:

"Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation 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." -- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781640091603
ISBN: 1640091602
Physical Description: 126 pages ; 21 cm.
Edition: First Counterpoint paperback edition.
Publisher: Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2019.
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Indian condition -- Heart berries -- Indian sick -- In a pecan field -- Your black eye and my birth -- I know I'll go -- Little Mountain Woman -- The leaving deficit -- Thunder Being Honey Bear -- Indian condition -- Better parts.