02658cam a2200481 i 4500 1271771273 TxAuBib 20240515120000.0 231019s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023937225 9781646221950 hardcover 1646221958 hardcover (OCoLC)1404819856 TxAuBib rda Peters, Amanda, author. The berry pickers : a novel / Amanda Peters. New York : Catapult, [2023] ©2023. 307 pages : map ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Simultaneously published: Toronto : Harper Perennial, 2023. "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. 20240515. Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, 2023. Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, 2024. 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. Maine Fiction. Domestic fiction. lcgft Historical fiction. lcgft Novels. TXAAL