The Berry Pickers

The Berry PickersWinner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. This showstopping debut by a vibrant new voice in fiction is a riveting novel about the search for truth, the shadow of trauma, and the persistence of love across time. 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,

and finding the answer is a task that requires deep reflection from all of us who share these magnificent vistas

's Coast Mountains

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as well as preparations for beverages from leaves and twigs of common plants

Black Woods

Organized by sub-genre

and the rivers flow

He also shows how their creativity is reflected in the communities they build with one another

despite centuries of colonialism

Yellow Bird traces Lissa's steps as she obsessively hunts for clues to Clarke's disappearance

and his best friend (and secret crush) Lacey probably is too

and a visiting drum group