{"id":43850,"date":"2018-05-15T11:12:10","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T15:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=43850"},"modified":"2018-05-02T14:32:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T18:32:34","slug":"heart-berries-terese-marie-mailhot-library-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/heart-berries-terese-marie-mailhot-library-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot [in Library Journal]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"“Indian girls can be forgotten so well they can forget themselves.” After reading Terese Marie Mailhot<\/a>\u2019s 160 pages or listening to not-quite-four hours narrated by Rainy Fields, forgetting is not an option. Presented as an essay collection, Mailhot’s work lays bare her experiences as a Native American woman fighting for her life: “I won’t be an Indian relic for any readership.”<\/p>\n

Surviving a violent father and neglectful mother, Mailhot escaped foster care by marrying as a teenager. She lost custody of her first son while pregnant with her second. Her marriage ended, she had affairs, and she married her unreliable lover with whom she had another son. Suffering from an eating disorder and mental illness, Mailhot was hospitalized. There, a nurse gave her a ballpoint pen and a composition book into which she “produced so much work.” Her writing becomes her savior.<\/p>\n

Fields, herself a registered member of the Muskogee Creek Nation of Cherokee descent, is Mailhot’s complementary conduit, intuiting the subtle rhythms of her wrenching debut. The afterword Q&A with poet Joan Naviyuk Kane<\/a> is exceptionally revealing.<\/p>\n

Verdict<\/strong>: Already a bestseller \u2013 as the March\/April selection<\/a> for Emma Watson’s “Our Shared Shelf<\/a>” book club, audiences should grow exponentially \u2013 savvy readers will be library-bound in droves.<\/p>\n

Review<\/strong>: “Audio,” Library Journal<\/em>, May 1, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Indian girls can be forgotten so well they can forget themselves.” After reading Terese Marie Mailhot\u2019s 160 pages or listening to not-quite-four hours narrated by Rainy Fields, forgetting is not an option. Presented as an essay collection, Mailhot’s work lays bare her experiences as a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,81,107,404,20,6535],"tags":[84,7879,51,13,7292,129,39,7880],"class_list":["post-43850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-audio","category-memoir","category-native-american-first-nations","category-nonfiction","category-repost","tag-betrayal","tag-heart-berries","tag-identity","tag-love","tag-mental-illness","tag-mother-daughter-relationship","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-terese-marie-mailhot"],"yoast_head":"\nHeart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot [in Library Journal] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/heart-berries-terese-marie-mailhot-library-journal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot [in Library Journal] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"“Indian girls can be forgotten so well they can forget themselves.” After reading Terese Marie Mailhot\u2019s 160 pages or listening to not-quite-four hours narrated by Rainy Fields, forgetting is not an option. Presented as an essay collection, Mailhot’s work lays bare her experiences as a...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/heart-berries-terese-marie-mailhot-library-journal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-05-15T15:12:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-05-02T18:32:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/04\/Heart-Berries-Terese-Marie-Mailhot-BookDragon.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"626\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1008\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@SmithsonianAPA\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot [in Library Journal] - BookDragon","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/heart-berries-terese-marie-mailhot-library-journal\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot [in Library Journal] - BookDragon","og_description":"“Indian girls can be forgotten so well they can forget themselves.” After reading Terese Marie Mailhot\u2019s 160 pages or listening to not-quite-four hours narrated by Rainy Fields, forgetting is not an option. Presented as an essay collection, Mailhot’s work lays bare her experiences as a...","og_url":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/heart-berries-terese-marie-mailhot-library-journal\/","og_site_name":"BookDragon","article_published_time":"2018-05-15T15:12:10+00:00","article_modified_time":"2018-05-02T18:32:34+00:00","og_image":[{"width":626,"height":1008,"url":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/04\/Heart-Berries-Terese-Marie-Mailhot-BookDragon.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@SmithsonianAPA","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/heart-berries-terese-marie-mailhot-library-journal\/","url":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/heart-berries-terese-marie-mailhot-library-journal\/","name":"Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot [in Library Journal] - BookDragon","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/#website"},"datePublished":"2018-05-15T15:12:10+00:00","dateModified":"2018-05-02T18:32:34+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/#\/schema\/person\/a00f6dcfcb279c75f3f992ad2919d51d"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/heart-berries-terese-marie-mailhot-library-journal\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/heart-berries-terese-marie-mailhot-library-journal\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/heart-berries-terese-marie-mailhot-library-journal\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot [in Library Journal]"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/#website","url":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/","name":"BookDragon","description":"Books for the Diverse Reader","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/#\/schema\/person\/a00f6dcfcb279c75f3f992ad2919d51d","name":"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/79b5f08575e8962bd00388cd126d374b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/79b5f08575e8962bd00388cd126d374b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/twitter.com\/@SmithsonianAPA"],"url":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/author\/riemert\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43850"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43888,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43850\/revisions\/43888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}