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    612-822-4611

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The Berry Pickers

The Berry Pickers

Peters, Amanda

Paperback

General Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1646222385
ISBN13: 9781646222384
Publisher: Catapult
Published: Oct 29 2024
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.85 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.23
Language: English
Awards: Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence

For generations, migrant workers have arrived in Maine every summer to harvest blueberries. In the middle of the 20th century, many of the migrants were Indigenous peoples from the Canadian Maritimes, such as the Mi’kmaq. The Berry Pickers follows a Mi’kmaq family whose youngest daugther dissapears during their summer in Maine, then follows the aftershocks that rattle that family over the next decades. However it also follows the girl, adopted and raised by a white family, and her gradual realization of the truth of her provenance. A straightforward and compelling read with gorgeous, nuanced considerations of how it feels to be a mother, daughter, partner, or sibling. Crystalline observations about guilt, forgiveness, anger, and privelege pierce through the otherwise easy-reading narrative. Perfect for the person looking for "just a really good novel." -Annie

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
2023 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize Winner
Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

A four-year-old Mi'kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a mystery that will haunt the survivors, unravel a family, and remain unsolved for nearly fifty years

A stunning debut about love, race, brutality, and the balm of forgiveness. --People, A Best New Book

July 1962. Following in the tradition of Indigenous workers from Nova Scotia, a Mi'kmaq family arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister's disappearance for years to come.

In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, her mother frustratingly overprotective. Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. As she grows older, Norma slowly comes to realize there is something her parents aren't telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, she will spend decades trying to uncover this family secret.

An unforgettable exploration of grief, love, and kin, (The Boston Globe), this show stopping debut by a vibrant new voice in fiction is a riveting novel about the search for truth, the shadow of trauma, and the persistence of love across time.

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