Heart Berries - A Memoir

Terese Marie Mailhot

Counterpoint

2018

160 páginas

5h 20m

ISBN-13: 9781619023345

Named One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2018 by: Goodreads, Esquire, Entertainment Weekly, ELLE, Cosmopolitan, Huffington Post, B*tch, NYLON, Buzzfeed, Bustle, The Rumpus, and the New York Public Library

A New York Times Editor's Choice
A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection

"A sledgehammer. . . . Her experiments with structure and language . . . are in the service of trying to find new ways to think about the past, trauma, repetition and reconciliation, which might be a way of saying a new model for the memoir." ―Parul Sehgal, The New York Times

"Heart Berries by Terese Mailhot is an astounding memoir in essays. Here is a wound. Here is need, naked and unapologetic. Here is a mountain woman, towering in words great and small... What Mailhot has accomplished in this exquisite book is brilliance both raw and refined." ―Roxane Gay, author of Hunger

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 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.

With an Introduction by Sherman Alexie and an Afterword by Joan Naviyuk Kane.

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4 (Muito bom)

Bom eu não sei realemte como começar a falar sobre esse livro, uma coisa que devo avisar logo e que tem muito trigger warning. O sentimento que eu tive lendo esse livro é que eu estava invadindo uma conversa entre duas pessoas e em alguns capitulos eu sentia como se autora estivesse me contando coisas que aconteceram com ela em uma conversa entre duas amigas, ao finalizar esse livro eu so consegui pensar no como nossas vidas podem ser danificadas por uma sucessão de acontecimentos que podemos ate mesmo esquecer (ou escolher esquecer) mas eles continuam lá nós moldando como pessoas. Então se vocês conseguirem ler e tiverem estomago peguem esse livro, pois na minha humilde opnião esse livro mostra de uma forma de certa forma dolorasa a realidade de uma mulher descendente de nativos americanos e como isso junto com outros fatores de sua vida a modificaram.