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A review by lureads2
Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
3.5
Beautiful writing, important insights into indigeneity, native womanhood, trauma, and motherhood; but while the book is marketed as an exploration of the author's bipolar disorder and PTSD, the book ended up focusing mainly on the author's many fraught relationships with dissappointing men, which was frustrating to read about. Further, the author's criticisms of the mental health system were often shallow and trite, and fell flat for me. Nonetheless, this book holds stark and devastating revelations about what it means to be an indigenous woman, the experience of trauma and PTSD, the joys and horrors of grappling with Indigenous identity and with motherhood; so overall this is an important and well written book, as long as you are ready to explore these themes.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Grief, Drug abuse, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Child abuse