The Berry Pickers: A Novel (002215390) Due 10/9/2024

The Berry Pickers: A Novel

Author: Amanda Peters

Genre: Fiction

Age Group: Adult

Kit Contents: 10 copies of the book, 3 large print copies of the book, 1 audio book, and discussion questions

Page Count: 307 

Publication Date: 2023

Details: 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.

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