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After her father's untimely death, Theresa faced a rocky and unstable childhood. But there was one place she felt safe: her grandmother's house in Mason, a depressed former copper mining town in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Gram's passing leaves Theresa once again at the mercy of the lasting, sometimes destructive grief of her Ojibwe mother and white stepfather. As the family travels back and forth across the country in search of a better life, one thing becomes clear: if they want to find peace, they will need to return to their roots.

The Mason House is at once an elegy for lost loved ones and a tale of growing up amid hardship and hope, exploring how time and the support of a community can at last begin to heal even the deepest wounds.

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"In this graceful and moving memoir, Bertineau offers a series of stories about love, tenacity, resilience, and hope . . . The Mason House manages to capture the intimate striations of multi-generational trauma without ever losing its humor or hope, even as it paints an intimate and complicated portrait of life in Michigan's Upper Peninsula."--M. Bartley Seigel, author of This Is What They Say

"Touching and authentic."--Faith Sullivan, author of Good Night, Mr. Wodehouse

"A powerful celebration of the ties that bind us and eccentric, laugh out loud moments of love, grace and what it means to be kin."
--Tiffany Midge, Author of Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese

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"In The Mason House, T. Marie Bertineau offers a remembrance of her life. Bursting with pain, with joy, with poverty, with comfort, she recounts her stories of love and loss and the unique ways we all make sense of our worlds."
--@theprosepantry "Read this book if you are hurting. Read it if you are healing. Read it to know the difference."--@pages.of.emery

"Written in prose that is both stark and lyrical as well as intrinsically intertwined with the landscape of the homeland, Michigan's Upper Peninsula, The Mason House is an engaging and heartening read."--Linda LeGarde Grover, author of In the Night of Memory (Special to the Star Tribune, Minneapolis)

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T. Marie Bertineau is of Anishinaabe-Ojibwe and French Canadian/Cornish descent. She is a member of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community on the L'Anse Reservation, migizi odoodeman.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lanternfish Press (September 29, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1941360432
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1941360439
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.1 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.85 x 8 inches

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Born amidst the copper mining ruins of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, T. Marie Bertineau is of Ojibwe-Anishinaabe and French Canadian/Cornish descent. She is a member of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community on the L'Anse Reservation, migizi odoodeman. Her work has appeared online with Minnesota’s Carver County Arts Consortium and carrotranch.com; in Mino Miikana, a publication of the Native Justice Coalition and Waub Ajijaak Press, and in the annual journal U.P. Reader. Married and the mother of two, she makes her home in the Great Lakes Region.

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Vickie

A memoir that I will think about for a long time.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 14, 2021

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I heard T. Marie Bertineau read a selection from her book The Mason House, and I knew I wanted to read her book. I bought a copy, and it skipped to the top of my pile of books to be read. Bertineau weaves together family and place and culture and how all three of those elements can help a person navigate life's ups and downs. Bertineau's memoir is beautifully written, and the story arc pulled me in and kept me turning the pages. The themes in her story resonated with me. A memoir should increase our understanding of people around us and expand our world. And it should expand our understanding of ourselves. Bertineau's memoir does all three.

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This is a great book!

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This is a love story taken from real life! Temperatures can be as low as 40 degrees below zero yet people work outside. Money is tight but the people do the best they can in spite of the weather! This is a story of a little girl and her relationship with her grandmother an a place of sanctuary. This is where this little girl could feel safe and experience the love of a "Gramma!" If you read this book you will feel a range of emotions but primarily love, respect, gratitude, and the knowledge that this little girl is a fine author and there is a grandmother in heaven who is incredibly proud!

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I appreciated the authenticity of this recollection of life as a odijibe(sp). Will recommend this read to friends. Unlike my childhood

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This Yooper Loved It!

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It gave a picture of different culture than mine, but interesting. I knew some of the places. A cousin has lived in both Mason and Chassell and added her perspecctive as we discussed it. Another Yooper friend has read it with positive comments. Today, I am taking it to another and then to another and then to more relatives. Kiitos for the book!

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Susan B.

Depressing story of impoverished native american childhood.

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Depressing story with few likable characters. I didnt feel that any of the characters had any depth. It was pretty much a straight narration of her childhood.

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A straightforward and sometimes bittersweet account of growing up in Michigan.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 31, 2022

The description on the book back drew me in: I am a "Yooper" of French Canadian ancestry married to a Yooper of Cornish descent. I, too, found coziness and security at my own grandmother's house in our city's Frenchtown.

I was able to identify with some of the characters. Yes, there is - sadly - an established tradition of alcoholism in this part of the US. It stretches back to the later decades of the 19th century, when lumbermen came to town to spend money and have a wild time. I do not know many whose lives were not touched by it. It has become part of the culture here.

This book is an honest account of how one family dealt with it. I found myself trying to stretch the book, by reading only a few chapters a day. I did not want it to end.

I hope the author will write a followup, or even a book of fiction.

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Colleen M. Chesebro

A Poignant Read About Growing Up and Finding Yourself

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 21, 2021

I received this book as a gift from a friend and wasn’t sure what to expect. I grew up in Wisconsin and now live in Michigan, so the culture of midwestern Native Americans has always interested me. This book takes place in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. T. Marie Bertineau is of Anishinaabe-Ojibwe and French Canadian/Cornish descent, which gives this author a unique perspective on life.

Bertineau connects her family, her childhood home, and her culture into a poignant memoir that expanded my knowledge of what life in the Upper Peninsula was like for a young girl growing up in the 1970s. The title refers to the house in the small town of Mason, a former mining town in the Keweenaw Peninsula, which belonged to the author’s paternal grandmother.

The book shares recollections of the author’s childhood where her parents’ alcohol use and other dysfunction made Theresa’s life a living hell. Yet, she finds comfort in visiting her grandmother on the weekends.

I connected deeply to Theresa’s story, as my upbringing is based on similar circumstances. Just like Theresa, my grandmother was my guardian angel.

For that reason, I loved the stories of Theresa’s time with her grandmother the most. The two shared a powerful connection, built on the family lore and the mystique of the “Mason House,” the author’s second home. The Mason House and her grandmother are so interconnected that when her grandmother passes, the house never holds the same magic as it once did.

This is a story built from hardships and an unstable childhood. It is the narrative of perseverance, of growing up, and of coming full circle to embrace the women who made Theresa who she is today. Most of all, this is the story of family and acceptance. I laughed, and I cried. I think I grew up a little more, too. This was an excellent read!

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Beth

Memoir of growing up with alcoholic parents

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 16, 2022

THE MASON HOUSE is T. Marie Bertineau's memoir, a compilation of memories. She grew up with her three sisters, a brother, and alcoholic parents in many different homes in many different school districts in a few different states. Their upbringing was unstable and obviously difficult.

I was under the misconception that Bertineau grew up in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (UP) because that's where the Mason house was. It was her grandmother’s home, where she spent part of her childhood, in Mason, Michigan. But no, only the first third of THE MASON HOUSE takes place in the UP, although Bertineau does continue to have ties to this area.

Maybe, then, THE MASON HOUSE really isn't the right title for this book. After all, 2/3 of it barely mentions the Mason house. My impression is that this book is about the instability of growing up with alcoholics.

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