Register to Attend Online - Click on Register Button
\nAbout Amanda Peters:&n bsp\;
\n
In 2022\, Amanda completed a Master of Fine Arts P
rogram in Creative Writing at the Institute of American Indians Arts (IAIA
) in New Mexico. In 2021\, Amanda won the Indigenous Voices Award for her
work of short fiction\, \;Waiting for the Long Night Moon. \;She w
as also selected to participate in the 2021 Writers Trust of Canada Rising
Stars Program by Metis poet and novelist\, Katherena Vermette.
Her short fiction and non-fiction have been publi shed in \;The Antigonish Review\, Grain Magazine\, The Alaska Quarterl y Review\, The Dalhousie Review\, \;and \;Filling Station Magazine .
\nAmanda&rsquo\;s first novel\, \;T he Berry Pickers\, was published this spring by HarperCollins in Canada an d by Catapult in the US this autumn. The novel won the Barnes and Noble Di scover Prize and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction in the US. I t was shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Writers&rsquo\; Trust Fiction Priz e in Canada\, and was named one of CBC Books' best fiction books of the ye ar.
\n\nAbout The Berry Pickers: \;
\nA four-year-old girl goes missing f rom the blueberry fields of Maine\, sparking a tragic mystery that will re main unsolved for nearly fifty years. July 1962.
\nA Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Week s later\, four-year-old Ruthie\, the family's youngest child\, vanishes my steriously. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother\, Joe\, sitting o n her favourite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain deeply affected by his sister's disappearance for years to come.
\nIn Bosto n\, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent fam ily. Her father is emotionally distant\, her mother frustratingly overprot ective. Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. As she grows older\, Norma slowly com es 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.
\nA stunning debut by a vibrant new voice in fiction\ , The Berry Pickers is a riveting novel about the search for truth\, the s hadow of trauma and the persistence of love across time.
\n< strong>Simcoe Reads Author Talk Series: \;The Barrie Public L ibrary has joined literary forces with 5 other libraries (Essa\, Innisfil\ , Midland\, New Tecumseth &\; Ramara) to offer virtual author talks in support of our annual Simcoe Reads event.
\nIf you have any questions or r equire technical assistance please call 705-728-1010 or email \;askus@barrielibrary.ca \;
\n< hr />\nWe want to improve\, to serve you better. Please take a moment and fill out our \;Program Evaluatio n Form.
\nhttps://barrielibrary.libnet.info/event/11978275 URL;VALUE=URI:https://barrielibrary.libnet.info/event/11978275 ATTACH:https://static.libnet.info/images/events/barrielibrary/SimcoeReads_ Logo_JPG_1_.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR