Love this memoir by American Indian writer Terese Marie
Mailhot, formerly of Seabird Island Band, Agassiz, BC. Heart Berries is a
memoir about mental health, emotional and relationship challenges, complicated
by race and culture and artistic/writer gifts. It is about parenting skills,
and about repressed memory. If this were my daughter’s story, I’d be
counselling her not to waste herself on undeserving men. Because most of us
have been there, done that, and, hopefully, survived to tell the tale. What
elevates Mailhot’s tale is the addition of the cultural wisdoms braided with
Catholic symbolism, and the wonder that someone ill is still able to see and record
the anguish as she lives it.
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