A review by ltaranto
Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot

5.0

In sparse yet visceral, powerful prose, Mailhot’s memoir explores her journey of reclaiming her future, fate and healing by examining her past growing up on a BC res, forging her path to a better life as a single mother, and choosing to undergo psychiatric treatment. She owns her experiences, those of great tenderness and past trauma, of being both tormented and triumphant in love. We see her evolving while never letting any one state of being or event, no matter how all consuming it is define her or how she chooses to live. Ultimately, the most poignant love story woven into each chapter but only realized as a whole, is of Mailhot learning to care for, fight for and cherish her own enduring and brilliant self.