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Heart berries : a memoir Book
by Mailhot, Terese
Book | Doubleday Canada, Toronto, Ont. : 2018.
  • 6 of 6 Copies Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
  • 0 current holds with 6 total copies.
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Branch Call Number Location Holdable? Status
Crystal Ridge BIO MAILH 2018 Biographies Copy hold / Volume hold Available
Diamond Trail 971.137004 Mai Biography Copy hold / Volume hold Available
Niagara-on-the-Lake 5114 MAILH Adult Biography Copy hold / Volume hold Available
Port Colborne B MAI Adult Indigenous Non-fiction Copy hold / Volume hold Available
Thorold FNMI 362.19685210092 MAILH FNMI Copy hold / Volume hold Available
Wainfleet 362.19685210092 MAI Adult - Non-Fiction Copy hold / Volume hold On Display
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"Guileless and refreshingly honest, Terese Mailhot's debut memoir chronicles her struggle to balance the beauty of her Native heritage with the often desperate and chaotic reality of life on the reservation. A powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in British Columbia. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Bipolar II, Terese 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. Terese Mailhot graduated from the Institute of American Indian Arts with an MFA in fiction and is the Saturday Editor at The Rumpus and a columnist for Indian Country Today"--Provided by publisher.
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  • ISBN: 9780385691147 (hc.)
  • Physical Description: printxviii, 154 pages ; 20 cm.
  • Publisher: Toronto, Ont. : Doubleday Canada, 2018.
  • General Note: First Nations, Métis and Inuit collection.
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