Author: Terese Marie Mailhot
- Non-Fiction
- Diana
- ISBN: 9786070760075
- Release Date: 09-10-2019
Synopsis
Poderosa y poética, esta es la historia real de una mujer que superó su violento entorno. Tras sobrevivir a una familia profundamente disfuncional —alcoholismo, abandono y abusos sexuales— y ser hospitalizada por trastorno de estrés postraumático y bipolaridad luego de perder a su primer hijo en la corte e intentar suicidarse, Terese Mailhot comienza a escribir para sanar: una manera de terapia. El maravilloso resultado es Valentía en el corazón: un homenaje para su madre, activista enfocada en convictos; una reconciliación con su padre, alcohólico abusivo, asesinado en circunstancias misteriosas; y una elegía sobre lo difícil que es amar cuando te sientes roto por dentro.
La autora nos muestra cómo uno puede florecer en medio del dolor. «Mailhot escribe sobre la maternidad, la pérdida, la ausencia, el deseo, el sufrimiento, el amor, las enfermedades mentales, la traición y la supervivencia». Roxane Gay, autora de Confesiones de una mala feminista. Una historia sobre cómo florecer en medio del dolor.
Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Band in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized 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 artis, who was murdered under mysterious circumstances; and an elegy on how difficult it is to love someone while dragging the long shadows of shame.
Mailhot trusts the reader to understand that memory isn't exact, but melded to imagination, pain, and what we can bring ourselves to accept. Her unique and at times unsettling voice graphically illustrates her mental state. As she writes, she discovers her own true voice, seizes control of her story, and, in so doing, reestablishes her connection to her family, to her people, and to her place in the world.
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