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Terese Marie Mailhot

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.

Memoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Autobiography · medium confidenceMemoir & Autobiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Memoir & Autobiography -> Memoir & AutobiographyOpen Library: Biography -> BiographyOpen Library: Canada, biography -> BiographyEssays & Cultural CriticismGender & FeminismGrief, Trauma & RecoveryAsia & the Pacific

Award History

0 wins · 2 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Governor General's Literary Awards: English-language Non-fictionMajor2018FinalistSecondary source
Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction2018FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Terese Marie Mailhot92%

  2. 02 Central places

    • Seabird Island Indian Reservation88%
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    • Pacific Northwest42%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    Writing in a notebook is depicted as a way out of trauma after hospitalization and diagnosis with post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder.

    Model confidence 70%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    30 / 100 academic

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Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 84%.