![]() She examines their individual burdens, as well as the ancestral pain they bear together. Mailhot explores her complicated relationship with her husband (to whom much of the novel is addressed) and delves four generations deep into her family. In the same chapter, Mailhot takes the reader from her childhood on the Seabird Indian Reserve in British Columbia to her adult experience in a psychiatric hospital where she received treatment for PTSD and Bipolar II. ![]() In some ways, the book is a reclamation of selfhood after physical violation, and of collective identity after centuries of indigenous erasure. Heart Berries is hard to sum up in one word or two. ![]() ![]() “When I gained the faculty to speak my story, I realized I had given men too much.” “My story was maltreated,” begins Terese Marie Mailhot ’s debut memoir Heart Berries. ![]()
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