Heart berries / Terese Marie Mailhot.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Bloomsbury Circus, 2018.Description: 144 pages ; 21 cmISBN:- 9781526604408 (hbk.) :
- 362.19685210092 23
- RC552.P67
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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General | The Harden Library, King's Hospital | Biography | 920 MAI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | R15980K0499 |
'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.
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