read for Popsugar 2018 Advanced Challenge: a book with a fruit or vegetable in the title

Boy oh boy does Terese Marie Mailhot have a way with words. Her prose is fantastic. It's dreamy and lyrical even when describing really hard and difficult topics. Mailhot takes you inside her internal struggles, and she graciously breaks down her relationship with her parents, depicting them in a very fair manner (although I must say I do not think her father deserves it). She takes the reader inside her mind and allows us a glimpse of her struggles with PTSD and bipolar disorder as well as providing a cultural lens that allows us to see how these disorders can manifest when the world is pushing hard against you. I got a lot of Sylvia Plath vibes in the beginning (which had a hard effect on my mood as the weather was super dreary outside), but now I'm very curious to read the Indigenous writers she cites as influences on her work. I'm also not surprised at all by the comparisons to Hunger by Roxane Gay, because I certainly felt the similarities as I was reading it - which also makes me want to listen to this book on audio. I think the prose would translate beautifully.