Join us for a discussion of "The Berry Pickers" by Amanda Peters.
Book summary:
On a hot day in 1960s Maine, 6-year-old Joe watches his little sister Ruthie, sitting on her favorite rock at the edge of the blueberry fields. Their family, Mi’kmaq people from Nova Scotia, are here to pick fruit, but that afternoon, Ruthie vanishes without a trace. As the last person to see her, Joe will be forever haunted by grief, guilt, and the agony of imagining how his life could have been.
In an affluent suburb nearby, Norma is growing up as the only child of unhappy parents. She is smart, precocious, and bursting with questions she isn’t allowed to ask — questions about her missing baby photos; questions about her dark skin; questions about the strange, vivid dreams of campfires and warm embraces that return night after night. Norma senses there are things her parents aren’t telling her, but it will take decades to unravel the secrets they have kept buried since she was a little girl.
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