Terese marie mailhot books5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The writing is spare and honest-self-harmingly honest-allowing readers to stare at all humanity under harsh fluorescent lights. It deserved all of it.Įach essay is self-contained with beautiful structure, sustained metaphors and thematic callbacks, but the essays are also connected, building off each other with novelistic order. Heart Berries had a lot of hype, especially for a first book from a young woman born on a coastal reserve in rural British Colombia. It was a finalist for many of Canada’s major nonfiction awards, and blurbed by the likes of Roxane Gay, Katherena Vermette, and Sherman Alexie (before his MeToo allegations). It was reviewed in the New York Times, and then became a NYT bestseller. ![]() This tight book of memoir in connected essays, Terese Mailhot’s debut, has been universally lauded over the course of 2018. ![]()
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