This month we will be discussing: "The Ber ry Pickers" by Amanda Peters
\nPlot summary: "July 1962. A Mi&rsquo\ ;kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later\, four-year-old Ruthie\, the family&rsquo\;s youngest child\, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother\, Joe\, si tting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain dis traught by his sister&rsquo\;s disappearance for years to come.
\nIn Maine\, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluen t family. Her father is emotionally distant\, her mother frustratingly ove rprotective. Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. As she grows older\, Norma slowl y comes to realize there is something her parents aren&rsquo\;t telling he r. Unwilling to abandon her intuition\, she will spend decades trying to u ncover this family secret."
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