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020 $a9781640091603 (pbk.) :$cNT$593
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100 1 $aMailhot, Terese Marie,.
245 10$aHeart berries :$ba memoir /$cTerese Marie Mailhot.
250 $aFirst Counterpoint paperback edition.
260 $aBerkeley, California :$bCounterpoint,$c2019.
300 $a126 p. ;$c21 cm.
505 0 $aIndian 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.
520 $aHeart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma. The triumphant result is Heart Berries, a memorial for Mailhot's mother, a social worker and activist who had a thing for prisoners; a story of reconciliation with her father-an abusive drunk and a brilliant artist-who was murdered under mysterious circumstances; and an elegy on how difficult it is to love someone while dragging the long shadows of shame. Mailhot trusts the reader to understand that memory isn't exact, but melded to imagination, pain, and what we can bring ourselves to accept. Her unique and at times unsettling voice graphically illustrates her mental state. As she writes, she discovers her own true voice, seizes control of her story, and, in so doing, reestablishes her connection to her family, to her people, and to her place in the world. --$cProvided by publisher.
600 10$aMailhot, Terese Marie$xHealth.
650 0$aMentally ill women$vBiography.
650 0$aMentally ill$xFamily relationships.
650 0$aPost-traumatic stress disorder$xPatients$zNorthwest, Pacific$vBiography.
650 0$aManic-depressive persons$zNorthwest, Pacific$vBiography.
650 0$aIndian women$zNorthwest, Pacific$vBiography.