![]() ![]() at once raw and achingly beautiful (NPR). Tina Ontiveros, Klindt's Booksellers, The Dalles, ORĪ powerful, poetic memoir of an Indigenous woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Band in the Pacific Northwest-this New York Times bestseller and Emma Watson Book Club pick is “an illuminating account of grief, abuse and the complex nature of the Native experience. But this isn’t self-help this is carefully crafted literature, the disciplined work of a masterful artist.” This is a book written against forgetting, against losing one’s self to the needs and desires of others. Each sentence feels necessary, each paragraph vital, as she grapples with daughterhood, motherhood, sisterhood, wifehood, and, finally, selfhood. ![]() With a beautiful and original voice, Mailhot applies the precision of a poet to her prose. “ Heart Berries achieves that most elusive and sacred goal of literature: to make us feel less alone in the world. ![]() Rick Simonson, The Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, WA Summer 2019 Reading Group Indie Next List Her coming-of-age on a First Nation reservation, Seabird Island in Canada, is particular to that vividly evoked place, but also carries larger, universal lessons for the human spirit and its survival. “In a time of memoirs that help a reader understand vulnerability and the experience of facing down fear, Terese Marie Mailhot's cathartic, moving Heart Berries is one of the bravest and most fearless of such books. ![]()
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