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A review by corinnekeener
Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
5.0
You can hear a much more detailed discussion of Heart Berries on Episode 26 of The Bookstore, a podcast that's like a book club where we actually read the books. It's wherever you find your podcasts.
Memoirs are tough to rate. I considered going without a rating, but I think that this book needs to be read, so I'm going to single-handedly attempt to raise its aggregate star count on GoodReads.
I immediately found Heart Berries frustrating. The timeline is not linear. I felt like I was missing context. It wasn't doing what I thought it would. This book challenged my expectations for memoir, for my idea of what a story about trauma is supposed to look like. I had an idea of the arc before beginning and by the end I was questioning everything I thought I knew about personal storytelling.
This book was important to me. If you intend to read it, be sure to check your expectations every step of the way and just hang in there, it's only 124 pages, but they pull more than their own weight.
Memoirs are tough to rate. I considered going without a rating, but I think that this book needs to be read, so I'm going to single-handedly attempt to raise its aggregate star count on GoodReads.
I immediately found Heart Berries frustrating. The timeline is not linear. I felt like I was missing context. It wasn't doing what I thought it would. This book challenged my expectations for memoir, for my idea of what a story about trauma is supposed to look like. I had an idea of the arc before beginning and by the end I was questioning everything I thought I knew about personal storytelling.
This book was important to me. If you intend to read it, be sure to check your expectations every step of the way and just hang in there, it's only 124 pages, but they pull more than their own weight.