![]() ![]() ![]() With The Berry Pickers, Peters takes on the monumental task of giving witness to people who suffered through racist attempts of erasure like her Mi’kmaw ancestors." - The New York Times Book Review excels in writing characters for whom we can’t help rooting. "A harrowing tale of Indigenous family separation. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, she will spend decades trying to uncover this family secret.įor readers of The Vanishing Half and Woman of Light, this showstopping 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. As she grows older, Norma slowly comes to realize there is something her parents aren’t telling her. Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. Her father is emotionally distant, her mother frustratingly overprotective. In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Joe will remain distraught by his sister’s disappearance for years to come. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family’s youngest child, vanishes. A Mi’kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. "A stunning debut about love, race, brutality, and the balm of forgiveness." - People, A Best New Book Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals of ExcellenceĪ 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 2023 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize Winner ![]()
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