Heart Berries: A Memoir Author：Terese Marie Mailhot Hardcover: 160 pages Publisher: Counterpoint (22 Feb. 2018) Language: English ISBN-10: 9781619023345 ISBN-13: 978-1619023345 ASIN: 1619023342 Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 1.3 x 22.9 cm 书籍简介 Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman"s coming of age on the Seabird Island Band in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual dia ... 展开完整描述 ▼
Heart Berries: A Memoir
Author：Terese Marie Mailhot
Hardcover: 160 pages
Publisher: Counterpoint (22 Feb. 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781619023345
ISBN-13: 978-1619023345
ASIN: 1619023342
Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 1.3 x 22.9 cm
书籍简介
Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman"s coming of age on the Seabird Island Band 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.
作者简介
Terese Marie Mailhot graduated from the Institute of American Indian Arts with an M.F.A. in fiction. Mailhot’s work has appeared in The Rumpus, the Los Angeles Times, Carve Magazine, The Offing, The Toast, Yellow Medicine Review, and elsewhere.
The recipient of several fellowships―SWAIA Discovery Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, Writing by Writers Fellowship, and the Elk Writer’s Workshop Fellowship―she was recently named the Tecumseh Postdoctoral Fellow at Purdue University and resides in West Lafayette, Indiana.
