{"product_id":"the-berry-pickers-9781646221950","title":"The Berry Pickers","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003e2023 Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Discover Prize Winner\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A stunning debut about love, race, brutality, and the balm of forgiveness.\" --\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e, A Best New Book \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJuly 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor readers of \u003ci\u003eThe Vanishing Half\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWoman of Light\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A harrowing tale of Indigenous family separation . . . [Peters] excels in writing characters for whom we can't help rooting . . . With \u003ci\u003eThe Berry Pickers\u003c\/i\u003e, Peters takes on the monumental task of giving witness to people who suffered through racist attempts of erasure like her Mi'kmaw ancestors.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAMANDA PETERS\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer of Mi'kmaq and settler ancestry. Her debut novel, \u003ci\u003e The Berry Pickers\u003c\/i\u003e is the Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence in Fiction, the 2023 Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Discovery Prize Winner, and was shortlisted for the Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Book of the Year and the Atwood Gibson Fiction Award from the Writers Trust of Canada. Her work has also appeared in the \u003ci\u003eAntigonish Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGrain Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eAlaska Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eDalhousie Review\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFilling Station Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the winner of the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award for Unpublished Prose and a participant in the 2021 Writers' Trust Rising Stars program. Amanda is a graduate of the Master of Fine Arts Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and has a Certificate in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50568842838290,"sku":"9781646221950","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1a718f30-9651-41db-bfc2-fea708082b85.jpg?v=1748730229","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-berry-pickers-9781646221950","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}