02331cam a2200445 4500 1357291242 TxAuBib 20240525120000.0 231018s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781646221950 trade 1646221958 trade ICrlF eng ICrlF ICrlF TxAuBib Peters, Amanda. The berry pickers : a novel / Amanda Peters. New York : Catapult, [2023] 307 p. : map ; 24 cm. Booklist starred, August 2023. Publishers Weekly, August 2023. Kirkus Starred, September 2023. Booklist starred. Publishers Weekly. Kirkus Starred. "July 1962. Following in the tradition of Indigenous workers from Nova Scotia, a Mi'kmaq family arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, 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. In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, her mother frustratingly overprotective. Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. As she grows older, Norma slowly comes 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"--Provided by publisher. Adult Follett Library Resources. Adult. 20240525. Missing children Fiction. Micmac Indians Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Blueberries Harvesting Fiction. Blueberries Fiction. Foreign workers Fiction. Kidnapping Fiction. Migrant labor Fiction. Mystery fiction. Maine Fiction. Detective and mystery stories. Detective and mystery fiction. Historical fiction.