Mailhot grew up in foster care for a time, and after she aged out, at 17, she married — she didn’t know what else to do. “I wondered if maybe falling in love looked like a crisis to an observer,” she writes. If “Heart Berries” is any indication, the work to come will not just surface suppressed stories; it might give birth to new forms. “The writers before me seemed to do the work of looking at being indigenous so we could look through it,” Mailhot writes. “I wanted as much of the world as I could take,” Mailhot writes.

Source: New York Times January 30, 2018 19:52 UTC