Heart berries a memoir by terese mailhot6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in British Columbia. 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. *Selected by Emma Watson as the Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick for March/April 2018 *Named one of the most anticipated books of 2018 by: Chatelaine, Entertainment Weekly, ELLE, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Huffington Post, B*tch, NYLON, BuzzFeed, Bustle, The Rumpus and Goodreads *A New York Public Library Best Book of 2018 *Shortlisted for the 2019 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Nonfiction *Shortlisted for the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize *Winner of the 2019 Whiting Award for Nonfiction *Winner of the Spalding Prize for the Promotion of Peace and Justice in Literature *Winner of the Blue Metropolis First Peoples Prize *Longlisted for the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize ![]() *Finalist for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Awards *Finalist for the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction ![]()
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