“Mailhot’s memoir is one to sit with and absorb slowly, chapter by chapter. “It is incredibly beautiful… I am just absolutely in love with it…I had to use every ounce of self-control to not sit and read it when it came to my house.” - Reading Women Podcast “With concise, lyrical prose, Mailhot illuminates her history-an abusive parent, a teen marriage, and a child removed from her care by the courts-in a way that feels as much like an elegy as a collection of memories.” -Harper’s Bazaar his unconventional epic should be part of the canon.” -The Chicago Tribune It’s even more exciting to actually watch someone appear, at least partly, to do so. It’s exciting to think that a person might be able to write their way out of seemingly insurmountable personal, cultural and historical trauma. If Heart Berries is any indication, the work to come will not just surface suppressed stories it might give birth to new forms.” - Parul, Sehgal, The New York Times are in the service of trying to find new ways to think about the past, trauma, repetition, and reconciliation, which might be a way of saying a new model for the memoir.
Her experiments with structure and language.
It goes without saying Heart Berries is necessary today.” - Rebel Women Lit “Through this beautifully written memoir we get glimpses, snapshots and explicit details of her experience. but Mailhot still tells her story with remarkable depth and feeling.” - Entertainment Weekly “You’ve never read a memoir-or, really, any book-quite like this. Mailhot wrings grand truths out of even the predictable events that define most lives… A fearless and artistic work, Heart Berries is ultimately a tale of not just surviving, but thriving even in the dark.” - Toronto Star “ Part love letter, part poem, it is a genre-defying marvel of a memoir… t is wholly enchanting. “Deeply moving and incredibly beautifully written.” - Vogue Australia “In this stunning memoir, indigenous author Mailhot does what few in the overcrowded genre can: She fashions a new way of telling a familiar story of trauma, loss and reconciliation.” - San Francisco Chronicle She finds the purest way to say what she needs to say… he writing is so good it’s hard not to temporarily be distracted from the content or narrative by its brilliance…Perhaps, because this author so generously allows us to be her witness, we are somehow able to see ourselves more clearly and become better witnesses to ourselves.”- Emma Watson, Official March/April selection for Our Shared Shelf
I have always been terrified and in awe of the power of words – but Mailhot does not let them silence her in Heart Berries. “I am quietly reveling in the profundity of Mailhot’s deliberate transgression in Heart Berries and its perfect results.
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