A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWinner of the Whiting Award for Non-FictionSelected by Emma Watson as an Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick''I loved it'' Kate Tempest''Astounding'' Roxane Gay''A sledgehammer'' New York TimesHeart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman''s coming of age on an Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest.Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalised and facing a dual diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder, Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma.The triumphant result is Heart Berries, a memorial for Mailhot''s mother, a social worker and activist who had a thing for prisoners; a story of reconciliation with her father – an abusive drunk and a brilliant artist – who was murdered under mysterious circumstances; and an elegy on how difficult it is to love someone while dragging the long shadows of shame.Memory isn''t exact, but melded to imaginat