01785cam a2200301 i 4500 997923702 TxAuBib 20231108120000.0 231018s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781646221950 HRD 27.00 1646221958 HRD 27.00 TxAuBib rda Peters, Amanda, author. The berry pickers [BOOK] : a novel / Amanda Peters. New York : Catapult, 2023. 307 pages : illustration ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier July 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 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. 20231108. Missing children Fiction. Micmac Indians Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Maine Fiction. Mystery fiction. Novels.