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Please join us Thursday, November 20th at 7pm to discuss "The Berry Pickers" by Amanda Peters, the winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. (NOTE: WE ARE MEETING THE 3rd THURSDAY BECAUSE OF THE HOLIDAY.)"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."
Books are available in the shop, or order online (including e-book) at bookshop.org/shop/alibibookshop or audio: libro.fm/alibibookshop
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624 Marin St, Vallejo, CA, United States, California 94590
