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  Title

  Heart berries : a memoir

  Author

  Mailhot, Terese Marie  

  Publisher:

  Counterpoint,

  Pub date:

  [2018]

  Description:

  xvi, 142 pages ;

  ISBN:

  1619023342

  Item info:

  6 copies currently available - Glen Allen Library, North Park Library, Tuckahoe Library, Libbie Mill Library, and Fairfield Area Library.
  

  Number of holds:

  0

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    Fairfield Area Library
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    BIO MAILHOT TERESE	1	Adult book	Biography collection
    Glen Allen Library
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    BIO MAILHOT TERESE	2	Adult book	Biography collection
    Libbie Mill Library
    	Copy	Format	Location
    BIO MAILHOT TERESE	6	Adult book	Biography collection
    North Park Library
    	Copy	Format	Location
    BIO MAILHOT TERESE	1	Adult book	Biography collection
    Tuckahoe Library
    	Copy	Format	Location
    BIO MAILHOT TERESE	1	Adult book	Biography collection
    	2	Adult book	Biography collection

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  Heart berries : a memoir
  Mailhot, Terese Marie
  

  Personal Author:

  Mailhot, Terese Marie

  Title:

  Heart berries : a memoir / Terese Marie Mailhot ; with an introduction by Sherman Alexie and an afterword by Joan Naviyuk Kane.

  Publication Info:

  Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, [2018]

  Physical descrip:

  xvi, 142 pages ; 21 cm

  Summary:

  "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.

  Held by:

  GLEN-ALLEN NORTH-PARK TUCKAHOE LIBBIEMILL FAAREA

  Personal subject:

  Mailhot, Terese Marie--Health.

  Subject term:

  Indian women--Northwest, Pacific--Biography.

  Subject term:

  People with bipolar disorder--Northwest, Pacific--Biography.

  Subject term:

  Post-traumatic stress disorder--Patients--Northwest, Pacific--Biography.

  Genre index term:

  Autobiographies. lcgft