July 1962. A Mi&rsquo\;kmaq family from No va Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later \, four-year-old Ruthie\, the family&rsquo\;s youngest child\, vanishes. S he 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 siste r&rsquo\;s disappearance for years to come. \;
\nIn Maine\, a yo ung 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 lik e memories than imagination. As she grows older\, Norma slowly comes to re alize there is something her parents aren&rsquo\;t telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition\, she will spend decades trying to uncover this f amily secret. \;
\nFor 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 time.
\n"A harrowing ta le of Indigenous family separation . . . [Peters] \;excels in writing characters for whom we can&rsquo\;t help rooting . . . \;With \;Th e Berry Pickers\, Peters takes on the monumental task of giving witness to people who suffered through racist attempts of erasure like her Mi&rsquo\ ;kmaw ancestors." &mdash\;The New York Times Book Review
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