![]() ![]() ![]() Heart Berries is a reminder that, in the right hands, literature can do anything it wants. ![]() In short, the book does everything it technically shouldn’t, brushing off the familiar regimen prescribed by MFA programs, and slipping the strictures of commercial publishing. A crucial scene might be just three lines of unsparing poetry. There’s barely any exposition: Major characters enter the narrative intimately and without fanfare, almost as though we know them already. A little over 100 pages, it’s far short of the 80,000 words most memoirs need to be deemed viable. There’s nothing conventional about Heart Berries, Terese Marie Mailhot’s debut. ![]()
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