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So many children reportedly starved to death there, the nuns ran out of places to bury them their bones were hidden in the walls of a new boarding school under construction. Mailhot’s grandmother went to one such school. Members of her family had passed through Canada’s brutal residential school system, which separated indigenous children from their families and cultures, and, in some cases, subjected them to physical and sexual abuse. She grew up on Seabird Island Indian Reservation in British Columbia.

In a book slender enough to slide into your back pocket, Mailhot reckons with the wages of intergenerational trauma. Terese Marie Mailhot’s memoir, published under the romantic, rather forgettable name “Heart Berries,” is a sledgehammer.