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Heart Berries: A Memoir

Heart Berries: A Memoir

Current price: $9.99
Publication Date: February 6th, 2018
Publisher:
Tantor Audio
ISBN:
9781665237666
Pages:
0

In a time of memoirs that help a reader understand vulnerability and the experience of facing down fear, Terese Marie Mailhot's cathartic, moving Heart Berries is one of the bravest and most fearless of such books. Her coming-of-age on a First Nation reservation, Seabird Island in Canada, is particular to that vividly evoked place, but also carries larger, universal lessons for the human spirit and its survival. A necessary book.

Rick Simonson, The Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, WA
February 2018 Indie Next List

Heart Berries achieves that most elusive and sacred goal of literature: to make us feel less alone in the world. With a beautiful and original voice, Mailhot applies the precision of a poet to her prose. Each sentence feels necessary, each paragraph vital, as she grapples with daughterhood, motherhood, sisterhood, wifehood, and, finally, selfhood. This is a book written against forgetting, against losing one’s self to the needs and desires of others. But this isn’t self-help; this is carefully crafted literature, the disciplined work of a masterful artist.

Tina Ontiveros, Klindt's Booksellers, The Dalles, OR
Summer 2019 Reading Group Indie Next List