The Berry Pickers
by Amanda Peters
"A four-year-old girl vanishes from the berry fields. Two families are broken by the same secret."
Maine, 1962: a Mi'kmaq family arrives from Nova Scotia for the blueberry harvest, and four-year-old Ruthie disappears — last seen by her six-year-old brother Joe. Nearby, a lonely girl named Norma grows up haunted by dreams that feel like memories. Two families, one stolen childhood, fifty years of grief and grace.
Worth knowing
Winner of the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction — one of the biggest book-club novels of its year.
