{"product_id":"heart-berries-a-memoir-von-terese-marie-mailhot-1","title":"Heart Berries","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Whiting Award for Non-Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelected by Emma Watson as an Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I loved it' Kate Tempest\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Astounding' Roxane Gay\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A sledgehammer' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeart Berries\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on an Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalised 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe triumphant result is \u003ci\u003eHeart Berries\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMemory isn't exact, but melded to imagination. In \u003ci\u003eHeart Berries\u003c\/i\u003e, Mailhot discovers her own true voice, seizes control of her story, and, in so doing, re-establishes her connection to her family, to her people, and to her place in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9781526604507\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eA Memoir\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9781526604507","offer_id":39417430016093,"sku":"9781526604507","price":13.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/e208361f-996b-48ee-98f6-52580601e32c.jpg?v=1780979448","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/heart-berries-a-memoir-von-terese-marie-mailhot-1","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}