Strawberry pickers

One of the best-selling books nationally, it won the Barnes Award and the Nobel Discover Award in 2023, and received the Andrew Carnegie Medal for excellence in fiction. A girl from the Micmac people, four years old, gets lost in the 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 a family’s separation... 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, Ruthi, the youngest member of the family, who was not more than four years old, disappears. The last time she was seen was sitting on a rock at the edge of the blueberry field beside her six-year-old brother Joe. Joe will live his entire life burdened by the trauma of losing his sister. Author: Amanda Peters Publisher: Sadr Publications Number of pages: 374