Heart Berries - Terese Marie Mailhot - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the Whiting Award for Non-Fiction Selected by Emma Watson as an Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick ''I loved it'' Kate Tempest ''Astounding'' Roxane Gay ''A sledgehammer'' New York Times 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.Memory isn''t exact, but melded to imagination. In Heart Berries , Mailhot discovers her own true voice, seizes control of her story, and, in so doing, re-establishes her connection to her family, to her people, and to her place in the world.