Heart berries : a memoir

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"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. 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."--

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Bronxville Public Library	B MAILHOT (Text) Biography	31004151593659	Available -

Chappaqua Library	BIOGRAPHY MAILHOT, TERESE (Text) Biography	31005600029617	Available -

Croton Free Library	B MAILHOT (Text) Biography	31006151663168	Available -

Eastchester Public Library	B MAILHOT (Text) Biography	31008152272700	Available -

Greenburgh Public Library	B MAILHOT (Text) Biography	31009154518934	Available -

Hendrick Hudson Free Library	B MAILHOT (Text) Biography	31016151627782	Available -

Irvington Public Library	BIO MAILHOT (Text) Biography	31012154416232	Available -

Katonah Village Library	B MAILHOT (Text) Nonfiction	31013151759061	Available -

Larchmont Public Library	B MAILHOT (Text) Biography	31014152552968	Available -

Mamaroneck Public Library District	B MAILHOT (Text) Biography	31015152337797	Available -

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