![]() ![]() ![]() “Sharp and scorching, her approach walks the knife’s edge between accessibility and experimentation, rendering in exacting detail what it’s like to be ‘ill and alone and intelligent.’”– Chicago Tribune Terese Marie Mailhot’s memoir, published under the romantic, rather forgettable name “Heart Berries,” is a sledgehammer.” – The New York Times ![]() She skillfully lays bare her thoughts and emotions to the reader so we feel as if we are looking out at the world from inside her head and her heart. You might like it because: Mailhot writes with an authentic, and at times shockingly candid, voice unlike anything else I have read. Her memoir, which she began writing while a patient in a mental institution, is told in a collection of essays in which she seems to unravel her traumatic past to get to a more hopeful future. The book: The author grew up on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in Canada. Teresa Marie Mailhot Pages: 142 Published: 2018 ![]()
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