Strawberry pickers - Amanda Peters

Among the best-selling books nationally, awarded the Barnes and Noble Discovery Prize in 2023, received the Andrew Carnegie Medal for excellence in fiction. A girl from the Micmac people, four years old, gets lost in blueberry fields in Maine, and that incident becomes the beginning of a mystery that shakes and disperses a family for fifty years. A horrifying story of separation that befalls an Indigenous family... In the blueberry harvest, Peters faces a great challenge, which is documenting her people's suffering from the Micmac, who faced racist attempts to erase their existence as happened with their ancestors. - New York Times Book Review. In the summer of 1962, a Micmac family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to work in the blueberry harvest. After a few weeks, Ruthie, the youngest family member, who was not more than four years old, disappears. She was last seen sitting on a rock at the edge of the blueberry field next to her six-year-old brother Joe. Joe will live his life burdened with the trauma of losing his sister. Elsewhere in Maine, a lonely girl named Norma grows up under the care of indifferent parents. Her father is emotionally distant, and her mother is overly protective. Norma experiences disturbing dreams and visions that seem more like hazy memories than fleeting imaginations. Over the years, she gradually discovers a hidden family secret, and she clings to her intuition, dedicating decades of her life to trying to uncover this buried mystery. Author: Amanda Peters Publisher: Sadr Publishing House Number of pages: 374