The Berry Pickers: A Novel

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The Berry Pickers: A Novel

The Berry Pickers: A Novel

2023 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize Winnerlonglisted For The Andrew Carnegie Medals Of Excellencea Four-Year-Old MiKmaq 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 YearsA Stunning Debut About Love, Race, Brutality, And The Balm Of Forgiveness. -People, A Best New Bookjuly 1962. A MiKmaq Family From Nova Scotia Arrives In Maine To Pick Blueberries For The Summer. Weeks Later, Four-Year-Old Ruthie, The FamilyS 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 SisterS 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 ArenT Telling Her. Unwilling To Abandon Her Intuition, She Will Spend Decades Trying To Uncover This Family Secret.For 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.A Harrowing Tale Of Indigenous Family Separation . . . [Peters] Excels In Writing Characters For Whom We CanT Help Rooting . . . With The Berry Pickers, Peters Takes On The Monumental Task Of Giving Witness To People Who Suffered Through Racist Attempts Of Erasure Like Her MiKmaw Ancestors. -The New York Times Book Review

Specification of The Berry Pickers: A Novel

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AuthorPeters, Amanda
Bindinghardcover
Languageenglish
Edition
ISBN-101646221958
ISBN-139781646221950
PublisherPeters, Amanda
Publication Year2023-10-31

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