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The berry pickers : a novel / Amanda Peters.

Peters, Amanda, (author.).

Summary:
"A four-year-old Mi'kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a family, and will remain unsolved for nearly fifty years 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9798885795692
  • Physical Description: 417 pages : map ; 23 cm
  • Edition: Large print edition.
  • Publisher: [Farmington Hills] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023.
Subject: Missing children > Fiction.
Micmac Indians > Fiction.
Berries > Harvesting > Fiction.
Family secrets > Nova Scotia > Fiction.
Foreign workers > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Siblings > Fiction.
Grief > Fiction.
Maine > Fiction.
Genre: Large print books.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Novels.

Available copies

  • 0 of 1 copy available at Lehigh Valley Library System. (Show)
  • 0 of 1 copy available at Easton Area Public Library System.

Holds

  • 2 current holds with 1 total copy.
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Easton Palmer Branch PETERS (Text)
Bookplate: Presented to the Palmer Branch by Gayle Aquino in Memory of Her Father, Douglas Morris
31901004789451 Large Print Fiction Checked Out 10/01/2024


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