“Through this beautifully written memoir we get glimpses, snapshots and explicit details of her experience. but Mailhot still tells her story with remarkable depth and feeling.” - Entertainment Weekly “You’ve never read a memoir-or, really, any book-quite like this. Mailhot wrings grand truths out of even the predictable events that define most lives… A fearless and artistic work, Heart Berries is ultimately a tale of not just surviving, but thriving even in the dark.” - Toronto Star “ Part love letter, part poem, it is a genre-defying marvel of a memoir… t is wholly enchanting. “Deeply moving and incredibly beautifully written.” - Vogue Australia “In this stunning memoir, indigenous author Mailhot does what few in the overcrowded genre can: She fashions a new way of telling a familiar story of trauma, loss and reconciliation.” - San Francisco Chronicle

She finds the purest way to say what she needs to say… he writing is so good it’s hard not to temporarily be distracted from the content or narrative by its brilliance…Perhaps, because this author so generously allows us to be her witness, we are somehow able to see ourselves more clearly and become better witnesses to ourselves.”- Emma Watson, Official March/April selection for Our Shared Shelf

I have always been terrified and in awe of the power of words – but Mailhot does not let them silence her in Heart Berries. “I am quietly reveling in the profundity of Mailhot’s deliberate transgression in Heart Berries and its perfect results.

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