Table of Contents
1 INDIAN CONDITION
2 HEART BERRIES
3 INDIAN SICK
4 IN A PECAN FIELD
5 YOUR BLACK EYE AND MY BIRTH
6 I KNOW I'LL GO
7 LITTLE MOUNTAIN WOMAN
8 THE LEAVING DEFICIT
9 THUNDER BEING HONEY BEAR
10 INDIAN CONDITION
11 BETTER PARTS
Marketing
$15,000 marketing and publicity budget
ARCs available 5 months in advance
Independent bookstore co-op: 5/$25
Goodreads and Shelf Awareness giveaways and paid social media
promotions
Publicity
Events throughout the Pacific Northwest, Seabird Island (BC), El
Paso (TX), Las Cruces/Albuquerque (NM), West Lafayette (IN), in
(joint reading with Sherman Alexie as well)
Possible appearances at Los Angeles Times Book Festival, Word on
the Street,
Potential lectures at Institute of American Indian Arts, Texas Tech
Lubbock, University of Montana, Missoula
Coverage in women's magazines (O, Elle, Marie Claire) literary
publications (Harper's, The Atlantic, The New Yorker), feminist
publications (Bust, Ms.), Native American Publications (Native
American Times, Native Peoples Magazine)
Seeking feature coverage/profiles in New York Times Magazine (ex.
feature profile on Patricia Lockwood), New York Magazine, Pacific
Northwest Magazine, Jezebel
Original essay placement about the treatment of Native American
women in Lenny Letter, New York Times/ original essay placement
about mother's relationship with convicted murderer being the basis
for Paul Simon's play Capeman
National broadcast radio and podcast coverage (Fresh Air, Weekend
Edition, Morning Edition, The Takeaway, To the Best of Our
Knowledge, Seeking national broadcast coverage; Leonard Lopate,
Think Out Loud
Widespread outreach to librarians and book clubs
Author is on Twitter at @TereseMarieM
TERESE MARIE MAILHOT graduated from the Institute of American Indian Arts with an M.F.A. in fiction. Mailhot's work has appeared in The Rumpus, the Los Angeles Times, Carve Magazine, The Offing, The Toast, Yellow Medicine Review, and elsewhere. The recipient of several fellowships--SWAIA Discovery Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, Writing by Writers Fellowship, and the Elk Writer's Workshop Fellowship--she was recently named the Tecumseh Postdoctoral Fellow at Purdue University and resides in West Lafayette, Indiana.
Praise for Heart Berries A New York Times Editor's Choice
A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection
1 of 27 Most Anticipated Books of 2018 (Esquire)
1 of 50 Most Anticipated Books of 2018 (Entertainment Weekly)
1 of 20 New Books to Read in February (Entertainment Weekly)
1 of 19 of the Best Books to Read This Winter (ELLE)
1 of 10 Books to Read in February (BBC)
1 of 33 Books to Get Excited About in 2018 (Cosmopolitan)
1 of 60 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018 (Huffington Post)
1 of 50 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018 (NYLON)
1 of 33 Most Exciting New Books of 2018 (Buzzfeed)
One of the Most-Anticipated Adult Books of 2018 (New York Public
Library)
1 of 23 Highly Anticipated Books of 2018 (Goodreads)
1 of 30 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2018 (Bitch)
1 of 7 New Books You Need to Read This February (Vulture)
1 of 14 Debut Books by Women Coming Out in 2018 That You Need in
Your TBR Pile (Bustle)
1 of 16 Nonfiction Books Coming in February 2018 to Educate and
Inspire You (Bustle)
1 of 21 Books to Read in 2018 (The Week) 1 of 12 New Books You Need
to Read This February (Harper's Bazaar)
One of The Millions's Most Anticipated Books of 2018
Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018 (The Coil)
What to Read when 2018 Is Just Around the Corner (The Rumpus)
1 of 65 Queer and Feminist Books to Read in 2018 (Autostraddle)
A Loan Stars Librarian Pick for the Month of March (Quill &
Quire)
1 of the Most Anticipated New Releases of 2018 (Reading Women)
The Rumpus Book Club Selection for January
"A sledgehammer . . . Her experiments with structure and language .
. . 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 . . . If Heart Berries is
any indication, the work to come will not just surface suppressed
stories; it might give birth to new forms." --The New York
Times
"Sometimes a writer's voice is so distinctive, so angry and messy
yet wise, that her story takes on the kind of urgency that makes
you turn pages faster and faster. Terese Marie Mailhot has one of
those voices, and her memoir about being raised on a Canadian
reservation and coming to understand what it means to be an
indigenous person in modern times is breathtaking." --Esquire, 1 of
27 Most Anticipated Books of 2018
"A luminous, poetic memoir." --Entertainment Weekly, 1 of 50 Most
Anticipated Books of 2018
"This powerful memoir reveals a life of struggle and illness,
deprivation and pain, but is so full of strength in the face of
adversity, that it is impossible not to read it and feel real hope
and the possibility of triumph and renewal, no matter how dark
things seem . . . The result is this singularly moving, poetic
book, one full of rage and desire, fear and brilliance. Prepare for
it to sink its teeth into your very heart." --NYLON, 1 of 50 Books
We Can't Wait to Read in 2018
"This gut punch of a memoir . . . [is] essentially a love letter,
full of humor and truth, to tough, challenging women everywhere."
--Marie Claire
"Poetic is an oft-used descriptor of lovely writing, and this book
seems to be something more striking than the word signifies: a
memoir and a poem, a haunting and dazzlingly written narrative of
Mailhot's growing up on a reservation in the Pacific Northwest."
--Huffington Post, 1 of 60 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018
"Powerful and raw, Heart Berries looks unflinchingly at trauma,
love, pain, self-acceptance, and what it means to be a Native woman
today." --BuzzFeed, 1 of 33 Most Exciting New Books of 2018
"Mailhot's memoir is one to sit with and absorb slowly, chapter by
chapter . . . It's a beautiful read with a deep emotional breadth."
--Shondaland
"Heart Berries by Terese Mailhot is an astounding memoir in essays.
Here is a wound. Here is need, naked and unapologetic. Here is a
mountain woman, towering in words great and small... What Mailhot
has accomplished in this exquisite book is brilliance both raw and
refined." --Roxane Gay, author of Hunger
"Inside Terese Mailhot's phenomenal memoir Heart Berries the truth
wrestles a knot between hustle and heart. How does a woman raised
on a reservation in Canada forge a lifestory in the face of a
culture hell bent on keeping her quiet and calm? By and through her
body, is how, and this woman's body rages, desires, screams and
whispers its way into the reader's body, as if to remind us that
the rest of the story will not be silenced. Terese radically
reinvents language in order to surface what has been murdered by
American culture: the body of a woman, the voice of a warrior, the
stories of ancestral spirit jutting up and through the present
tense. I am mesmerized by her lyricism because it is shot through
with funny angry beautiful brutal truths. This is a writer for our
times who simultaneously blows up time. Thank oceans." --Lidia
Yuknavitch, author of The Book of Joan, The Small Backs of
Children, Dora: A Headcase, and The Chronology of Water
"Heart Berries is an epic take--an Iliad for the indigenous. It is
the story of one First Nation woman and her geographic, emotional,
and theological search for meaning in a colonial world. It is
disturbing and hilarious. It contains sentences of such poetry and
power that you will be compelled to set the book down and walk away
to recover from the tremors. Terese is a world-changing talent and
I recommend this book with 100% of my soul." --Sherman Alexie,
author of You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
"Mailhot's first book defies containment and categorization. In
titled essays, it is a poetic memoir told in otherworldly sentences
. . . Not shy, nor raw, nor typical in any way, this is a
powerfully crafted and vulnerable account of living and writing
about it." --Booklist
"Mailhot fearlessly addresses intimately personal issues with a
scorching honesty derived from psychological pain and true epiphany
. . . Slim, elegiac, and delivered with an economy of meticulous
prose, the book calibrates the author's history as an abused child
and an adult constantly at war with the demons of mental illness.
An elegant, deeply expressive meditation infused with humanity and
grace." --Kirkus Reviews
"Sharp and scorching . . . It's exciting to think that a person
might be able to write their way out of seemingly insurmountable
personal, cultural and historical trauma. It's even more exciting
to actually watch someone appear, at least partly, to do so . . .
This unconventional epic should be part of the canon." --Chicago
Tribune
"[A]n innovative coming-of-age narrative about Mailhot's upbringing
on the Sea Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest . . .
explores being Indigenous in a world that has neglected the
community for centuries." --Bitch, 1 of 30 Most Anticipated
Nonfiction Books of 2018
"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, 1 of 12 New Books You
Need to Read This February
"This is one of the most highly anticipated books of the year, let
alone February! . . . The memoir is one of struggle, as she details
her dysfunctional upbringing and challenges indigenous women face,
but ultimately one of strength and will." --Book Riot, Must-Read
February New Releases
"Mailhot's memoir isn't just another confession of the hells of
living with PTSD and BiPolar disorder: it's a woman writing herself
out of the darkness and into acceptance of the events in her life."
--The Coil, Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018
"A memoir in essays, Terese Marie Mailhot's Heart Berries tells the
story of the author's coming-of-age on the Seabird Island Indian
Reservation in the Pacific Northwest--one filled with dysfunction
and a dual diagnosis of PTSD and bipolar disorder. What did Mailhot
do with all that? She wrote her way out of her trauma, finding
forgiveness, understanding, peace, and triumph along the way."
--Bustle, 1 of 14 Debut Books by Women Coming Out in 2018 That You
Need in Your TBR Pile
"There is plenty of misery in Mailhot's memoir, but also something
fresh: a sort of lived-in, jargon-free intersectionality . . . The
incidents she recounts are horrific on their face, but rendered
with a sense of proportion and self-knowledge that rarely emerges
from happier lives." --Vulture, 1 of 7 New Books You Need to Read
This February
"Her poetic memoir is painfully straight to the point--in the best
way possible. It's a pleasure to read along as she takes control of
her life and finds her voice." --HelloGiggles
"This stunning, poetic memoir from Terese Marie Mailhot burns like
hot coal. I read it in a single feverish session, completely
absorbed and transported by Mailhot's powerful and original voice .
. . The strength of her writing comes from Mailhot's fearless
embrace of emotional darkness and in her depiction of the psychic
cost of living in a white man's world." --BookPage, Nonfiction Top
Pick for February
"Mailhot works language like a poet and lets memory and time twist
around to elicit from herself deeper truths about childhood trauma,
mental illness, Native identity, love, romance, and motherhood."
--Pasatiempo
In the poetic essays that compose this memoir, Terese Marie Mailhot
examines coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in
the Pacific Northwest; post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar
II disorder; memorializing her mother; reconciling with her father;
and more. --Autostraddle
"Heart Berries by Terese Mailhot: Stories that untell the dominant
culture's cover story from the point of view of a First Nation
Woman. Absolutely astonishing in its wrestling of hustle and
heart." --Lidia Yuknavitch, "A Year in Reading," The Millions
"Heart Berries shook me to my core. It wasn't just the emotionally
jarring, painful experiences shared by author Terese Marie Mailhot
. . . but also by her unembellished, electric prose."
--Inlander
"In this poetic memoir of remarkable lyric power, debut author
Terese Marie Mailhot blends a deeply personal narrative with fierce
(and often funny) political consciousness in sentences so lean that
reading them smarts . . . The immense hurt in this book cannot dim
the steady beam of Mailhot's brilliance. Heart Berries is a triumph
to relish." --The Riveter
"This book is ache and balm. It is electric honesty and rigorous
craft. It concerns a woman who veers into difficult and haunted
corners. She meets ghosts and hospitals. She ends up in a mutinous
wing of memoir, disobeying all colonial postures, 'neat narratives,
' formulas and governments. The resulting story is brave and
bewitching. I am so grateful to Terese Marie Mailhot, a fiery new
voice, whose words devoured my heart." --Kyo Maclear, bestselling
author of Birds Art Life
"There is some word we have not invented yet that means honesty to
the hundredth power, that means courage, exponentially extended,
that means I will flay myself for my art, for my survival, for my
family, to keep breathing, to keep writing, to keep being alive.
Inside that opening is beauty beyond all measure, the truth that
art was invented to carry, and power enough to light the word. This
book is that kind of opening." --Pam Houston, author of Contents
May Have Shifted
"Heart Berries makes me think of a quote I have always loved:
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty' (Keats). With a keen eye for
intense truth and thoroughly crafted beauty, Mailhot's debut sings
like poetry, and stays with you long after you've finished the last
page." --Katherena Vermette, award-winning author of The Break
"Heart Berries is phenomenal. I finished the book and went right
back to the beginning to read through once again; my understanding
deepened, as did the mystery. Mailhot's voice is so clear, so
disruptive, so assured, and always so mesmerizingly poetic--it
somehow startles and lulls all at once. I was KNOCKED DOWN."
--Justin Torres, author of We the Animals
"Unearthing medicine and receiving power requires you to give your
life, and in her debut memoir, Mailhot fearlessly delivers. By
turns tender, sad, angry, and funny, Heart Berries is a
thought-provoking, powerful exploration of what it means to be a
contemporary Indigenous woman and mother." --Eden Robinson, author
of the Scotiabank Giller Prize short-listed novel Son of a
Trickster
"In this debut memoir, Terese Marie Mailhot sends across
generations a love letter to women considered difficult. She sends
a manifesto toward remembering--culture and heartbreak and
laughter. She writes to the men who love these women. She writes
prose tight as a perfect sheet, tucked . . . To read this book is
to engage with one of our very best minds at work." --Toni Jensen,
author of From the Hilltop
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