Heart Berries: A Memoir

A 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 . . . at once raw and achingly beautiful (NPR).

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160 pages

Average rating: 7.26

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heylaurita
Apr 04, 2024
8/10 stars
Loved the Q & A at the end of the audiobook.
E Clou
May 10, 2023
6/10 stars
This is hard and heavy and ... joyless? I like the writing, it feels fresh and straightforward, different than other memoirs. But the lack of chronology made it difficult for me to understand who was who and who did what.

The afterword is a question and answer session and is especially interesting because Mailhot's voice is a little different, possibly its a transcript of her speaking instead of writing?
Tina86
Mar 13, 2023
7/10 stars
Beautifully written memoir of one Native American woman’s battle with cultural indifferences and mental illness.

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