![]() She grew up on the Sea Bird Island First Nation reservation in British Columbia, surviving a dysfunctional childhood that swung between neglect and tradition, learning and abuse. The work must be striking.”Ī graduate of the Institute of American Indian Arts, Mailhot is an English post-doctoral fellow at Purdue University. It is unquestionably akin to a piece of Salish art, which she describes as “sparse and interested in blank space. But Heart Berries is more than just one woman’s account of her breakdown and how she got to the other side. The words she writes there reflect a woman on the very edge of what she can endure. After admitting herself to a mental hospital, she’s diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder and given a journal. ![]() ![]() In her debut memoir, Heart Berries, New York Times bestselling author Terese Marie Mailhot spares no one, and most especially herself, from her unflinching gaze. ![]()
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