Heart Berries
Terese Marie Mailhot grew up on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in British Columbia, and she wrote much of Heart Berries while hospitalized after a diagnosis of PTSD and bipolar II disorder. The result is a slim, fierce memoir about a hard childhood, a complicated mother, a passionate and painful relationship, and the work of putting a fractured self back together. The prose is raw and poetic, circling trauma and love without flinching. The book became a bestseller and a landmark of contemporary Indigenous writing. Emma Watson chose it for her book club Our Shared Shelf.
What you might want to know about Heart Berries
The questions readers send us most often, answered without spoilers.
A short, intense memoir by an Indigenous woman from the Seabird Island Band, written during a hospitalization for PTSD and bipolar disorder.
Yes. Emma Watson chose it for her feminist book club Our Shared Shelf in 2018.
Heart Berries was written by Terese Marie Mailhot, published in 2018 by Counterpoint.
Heart Berries is 160 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Heart Berries takes most readers 2 to 3 hours to finish.
Heart Berries is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
