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Heart Berries
by Terese Marie Mailhot
Wanted to come away with a better understanding of mental illness and/or a better sense of the contemporary Native American lifestyle. Instead, found this to be too raw and jarring.
Issues of great poverty, dysfunctional parenting, extreme promiscuity, swearing, foster care, sexual abuse, and more are the things the author must endure before becoming the successful writer and teacher she is today.
After a teen marriage and losing custody of her child, she is diagnosed as bipolar and acknowledges that she strains every relationship she has. She is messy, loud, drunk and abusive yet somehow writing is the one constant in her life. She certainly endured a lot as a child and it has taken most of her adult life to sort it out.
This tale is not complimentary to Native Americans and might make anyone run away from someone who says they are bipolar. A tough read.
Issues of great poverty, dysfunctional parenting, extreme promiscuity, swearing, foster care, sexual abuse, and more are the things the author must endure before becoming the successful writer and teacher she is today.
After a teen marriage and losing custody of her child, she is diagnosed as bipolar and acknowledges that she strains every relationship she has. She is messy, loud, drunk and abusive yet somehow writing is the one constant in her life. She certainly endured a lot as a child and it has taken most of her adult life to sort it out.
This tale is not complimentary to Native Americans and might make anyone run away from someone who says they are bipolar. A tough read.