


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.
