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smlaurie 's review for:
Heart Berries: A Memoir
by Terese Marie Mailhot
challenging
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
beautiful, raw writing: “I’d like this letter to be ashamed and wild like me, and I’d like to know you read it and wanted me more.”
Difficult and dark emotions and experiences—much is packed into the hundred and some pages: “It’s too ugly–to speak this story. It sounds like a beggar. How could misfortune follow me so well, and why did I choose it every time?”
It’s a slim book easily read in one sitting, but you may want to take your time with this one and revisit and reflect on sentences and passages and understand how Mailhot processes her lifetime of shortcomings, trauma, pain into self-worth:
"I never understood her commitment to living well. It seems innate that I am fucked up. I think I have the blood memory of my neurotic ancestors and their vices. Her work seems as important as my work, to acknowledge that some of my people slept in, and wasted their lives, and were gluttonous."
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