Amanda Peters

The Berry Pickers is a novel about family, belonging, and the agony of imagining the life you should have had, sparked by the disappearance of a four-year-old Mi'kmaq girl from the blueberry fields of Maine. One family's deepest pain. Another's darkest secret. Who will they be when the truth comes out? On a hot day in 1960s Maine, six-year-old Joe...

From the internationally bestselling author of The Berry Pickers—a powerful, intensely moving novel of family and legacy, following one woman as she confronts buried truths and the fragile future she alone must protect. As I stood under it, looking up into the branches, listening as the wind rustled the leaves, I could hear my Kiju's voice—"This tree holds our stories."...