Join us during Native American Heritage Mo nth to discuss The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters&mdash\;a beauti ful novel of memory\, identity\, and the enduring bonds of family\, where one childhood disappearance echoes across generations.
\nJuly 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 ch ild\, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother\, Joe\, sitti ng on a favorite rock at the edge of a \;berry \;field. Joe will r emain 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 fami ly. Her father is emotionally distant\, her mother frustratingly overprote ctive. Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem m ore like memories than imagination. As she grows older\, Norma slowly come s to realize there is something her parents aren't telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition\, she will spend decades trying to uncover this f amily secret.
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