The Berry Pickers - Amanda Peters
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: Aaliya Warbus
Tags: General Fiction, Novel, Contemporary, Adults
A four-year-old Mikmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a family, and remains unsolved for nearly fifty years, July 1962. Following in the tradition of Indigenous workers from Nova Scotia, a Mikmaq family arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the familys 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 sisters 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 arent telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, s
