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"Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation 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...
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2019.
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One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2019 According to Time * Publishers Weekly ?*? The Millions ?*? The Week * Good Housekeeping "There is more life packed on each page of Ordinary Girls than some lives hold in a lifetime." ?Julia Alvarez? In?this searing memoir,?Jaquira D?az writes fiercely and eloquently of her?challenging girlhood and triumphant coming of age. While growing up in housing projects?in Puerto Rico and Miami Beach, D?az found herself...
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Two Dollar Radio
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2020
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English
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The youngest ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay collection seeking to reconcile the world he was born into with the world that could be. For readers of Ocean Vuong and Maggie Nelson and fans of Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot, A History of My Brief Body is a brave, raw, and fiercely intelligent collection of essays and vignettes on grief, colonial violence, joy, love, and queerness. Billy-Ray...
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