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Title Heart berries : a memoir / Terese Marie Mailhot ; with an introduction by Sherman Alexie and an afterword by Joan Naviyuk Kane
Imprint Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, [2018]

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 Stadsbibl:Slottet vån 3 Samhällsvetenskap  362.1 Mailhot engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Descript xvi, 142 pages ; 21 cm
Note Indian condition -- Heart berries -- Indian sick -- In a pecan field -- Your black eye and my birth -- I know I'll go -- Little Mountain Woman -- The leaving deficit -- Thunder Being Honey Bear -- Indian condition -- Better parts
"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."-- Provided by publisher
Subject Mailhot, Terese Marie -- Health
Posttraumatiskt stressyndrom
Personer med bipolär sjukdom
Psykiskt sjuka
Biografi
Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Patients -- Northwest, Pacific -- Biography
Manic-depressive persons -- Northwest, Pacific -- Biography
Indian women -- Northwest, Pacific -- Biography
Autobiographies.
Classmark 362.19685/210092 B
ISBN/ISSN 9781619023345 hardcover
1619023342 hardcover
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