Terese Marie Mailhot
Author
Language
English
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BECKET ATHENAEUM - BOOK CLUB SELECTIONS
Webster - Native American Heritage Month Adult Titles
Women's History Month
Webster - Native American Heritage Month Adult Titles
Women's History Month
Description
"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...