![]() ![]() ![]() She shares these anecdotes through lyrical, brooding, vastly introspective language. The author’s bipolar condition disrupted many of her formative relationships with new men she introduced to Isaiah, only to have them fade into obscurity. She discusses her precarious affair with a writing professor, visits with her psychotherapist, who tempered her manic depression with a stay at a psychiatric facility (the “madhouse”), her prideful work as a distinguished Indian writer, and the abuses of her callous, cynical mother and “drunk savant” father. The author chronicles her teenage marriage to Vito, the loss of her son Isadore in court upon the birth of second son Isaiah, and how they each “ruined each other, and then my mother died.” Mailhot fearlessly addresses intimately personal issues with a scorching honesty derived from psychological pain and true epiphany. ![]() She was raised on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in British Columbia, and her innocent youth was spent within the orbit of a doting grandmother. ![]() Reflections on the turbulent life of a Native American writer.Ī glowing introduction from Sherman Alexie dubs Mailhot, the Saturday editor for the Rumpus, the “biological child of a broken healer and a lonely artist,” and her debut memoir undeniably embodies those attributes. ![]()
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