The Search for Truth and the Persistence of Love Across Time with Novelist Amanda Peters

The Search for Truth and the Persistence of Love Across Time with Novelist Amanda Peters

In July of 1962, a Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of a wealthy 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 realizes that there is something her parents aren't telling her. The Berry Pickers is an intimate portrait of race, love, loneliness, and the power of forgiveness.

Amanda Peters is a mixed-race woman of Mi'kmaq and European descent who was born and raised in Nova Scotia. The Berry Pickers is her debut novel. It was the Barnes and Noble Discover Prize and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and has been translated into 16 languages.

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