Heart berries /
Mailhot, Terese Marie,
Heart berries / Terese Marie Mailhot. - London : Bloomsbury Circus, 2018. - 144 pages ; 21 cm
'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.
9781526604408 (hbk.) : £12.99 No price
Mailhot, Terese Marie.
Post-traumatic stress disorder--Patients--Northwest, Pacific--Biography.
Manic-depressive persons--Northwest, Pacific--Biography.
Indian women--Northwest, Pacific--Biography.
Biography.
RC552.P67
362.19685210092
Heart berries / Terese Marie Mailhot. - London : Bloomsbury Circus, 2018. - 144 pages ; 21 cm
'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.
9781526604408 (hbk.) : £12.99 No price
Mailhot, Terese Marie.
Post-traumatic stress disorder--Patients--Northwest, Pacific--Biography.
Manic-depressive persons--Northwest, Pacific--Biography.
Indian women--Northwest, Pacific--Biography.
Biography.
RC552.P67
362.19685210092