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"July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to p ick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later\, four-year-old Ruthie\, the f amily's youngest child\, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old br other\, 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. I n Maine\, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an afflue nt family. Her father is emotionally distant\, her mother frustratingly ov erprotective. Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. As she grows older\, Norma slow ly comes to realize there is something her parents aren't telling her. Unw illing 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 persiste nce of love across time."
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