- Post-traumatic stress disorder, Patients, Health, Manic-depressive persons
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.
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Earnest, grave, contemplative and character-led.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Terese Marie Mailhot
- First published
- 2018
- Pages
- 160
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing, Doubleday Canada, Bloomsbury UK
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781526604415
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