![]() ![]() Now I'm coming back as a postdoctoral fellow. When I left, it was under brutal circumstances. I've missed the rain, I've missed the mountains.īaer: Is your relationship with home changing? For the first time, I'm coming back here and inviting my brothers, and we were just in Seattle. Terese Marie Mailhot: Normally I travel for funerals. ![]() We caught up with her for a few minutes to talk about the book and returning to the Pacific Northwest. 11, in conversation with writer Lidia Yuknavitch. Mailhot, who now lives in Indiana, will read at Powell’s Books this Sunday, Feb. For all the exquisite, koan-like stories of abuse and privation, she is as ruthless with herself as with ex-lovers and family. But the story's fulcrum is Mailhot's will to reclaim her own story. ![]() "Heart Berries" addresses harrowing stories, like the day Mailhot lost custody of her oldest child, her hospitalization for PTSD and bipolar disorder, the desperate poverty of her girlhood days. Mailhot, who's the Saturday editor for The Rumpus, grew up on the Seabird Island Indian Reserve in British Columbia. Alexie called her a "generational talent … a powerful indigenous woman who interrogates herself" in her writing. Terese Marie Mailhot's memoir, "Heart Berries," is breaking big, winning endorsements from The New York Times and from Sherman Alexie, who met Mailhot at a writing workshop he was teaching. Her memoir, "Heart Berries," published Feb. Terese Marie Mailhot, who grew up in British Columbia. ![]()
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