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The berry pickers : a novel / Amanda Peters.

Peters, Amanda, (author.).

Summary:

"July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia 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. 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."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781646221950
  • ISBN: 1646221958
  • Physical Description: 307 pages : map ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Catapult, [2023]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Simultaneously published: Toronto : Harper Perennial, 2023.
Awards Note:
2023 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize Winner.
Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
Subject: Missing children > Fiction.
Micmac Indians > Fiction.
Berries > Harvesting > Fiction.
Family secrets > Nova Scotia > Fiction.
Indigenous children > Fiction.
Foreign workers > Fiction.
Agricultural laborers, Foreign > Maine > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Siblings > Fiction.
Grief > Fiction.
Canadian fiction > 21st century.
Maine > Fiction.
Mi'kmaq > Nova Scotia > Fiction.
Enfants disparus > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Enlèvement (Droit pénal) > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Micmac > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Secrets de famille > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Travailleurs étrangers > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Familles > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Maine > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Frères et sœurs > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Chagrin > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Secrets de famille > Nouvelle-Écosse > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Enfants autochtones > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Travailleurs agricoles étrangers > Maine > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
FICTION / Indigenous.
Blueberries > Harvesting
Kidnapping
Missing children
Missing children > Fiction.
Berries > Fiction.
Micmac Indians > Fiction.
Maine > Fiction.
Genre: Domestic fiction.
Fiction
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.
Romans.
Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
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