NATIONAL BESTSELLER2023 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize WinnerWinner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionA four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a mystery that will haunt the survivors, unravel a family, and remain unsolved for nearly fifty years"A stunning debut about love, race, brutality, and the balm of forgiveness." —People, A Best New BookJuly 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.For readers of The Vanishing Half and Woman of Light, 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."A harrowing tale of Indigenous family separation . . . [Peters] excels in writing characters for whom we can’t help rooting . . . With The Berry Pickers, Peters takes on the monumental task of giving witness to people who suffered through racist attempts of erasure like her Mi’kmaw ancestors." —The New York Times Book Review
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The Berry Pickers: A Novel
von Amanda Peters
NATIONAL BESTSELLER2023 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize WinnerWinner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionA four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a mystery that will haunt the survivors, unravel a family, and remain unsolved for nearly fifty years"A stunning debut about love, race, brutality, and the balm of forgiveness." —People, A Best New BookJuly 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.For readers of The Vanishing Half and Woman of Light, 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."A harrowing tale of Indigenous family separation . . . [Peters] excels in writing characters for whom we can’t help rooting . . . With The Berry Pickers, Peters takes on the monumental task of giving witness to people who suffered through racist attempts of erasure like her Mi’kmaw ancestors." —The New York Times Book Review
Aktuelle Rezensionen(1)
Rezension von ines 🌿Maine in den 60er Jahren und eine Mi‘kmaq Familie, deren jüngste Tochter plötzlich spurlos verschwindet. Der sechsjährige Joe war derjenige, der seine Schwester Ruthie als Letzter gesehen hat und diese Tatsache und die Schuld, die er empfindet, lassen ihn sein Leben lang nicht los. Beeren pflücken erzählt von einer gebrochenen Familie und dem Schmerz, der den Verlust eines Kindes auch Jahrzehnte später nicht vergessen lässt, und auch von Identität und Zugehörigkeit. To be fair, der Roman ist in seiner Grundstory sehr vorhersehbar und der Ausgang wird bereits im Prolog vorweggenommen. Es ist daher kein Buch, das auf Plottwists oder großen Spannungsaufbau baut. Viel mehr ist hier der Weg das Ziel, und der war umso toller zu verfolgen, indem man mit den Charakteren erwachsen wird. Die POVs wechseln zwischen Joe zu Ruthie bzw. Norma, wie sie nun heißt (kein Spoiler; es ist von Anfang an klar, dass es sich um die verschwundene Ruthie handelt) und während ich Normas Kapitel mit sehr viel Spannung verfolgt und mitgelitten habe, war Joes Leben gefühlt eine einzige Abwärtsspirale und eine Aneinanderreihung teils moralisch verwerflicher Handlungen aber auch unfassbar viel Schmerz. Man kommt hier schnell ins Überlegen, wie anders beide Leben verlaufen wären, wäre dieser traumatische Vorfall nie passiert. Auch das Ende war sehr stark und wirklich sehr berührend. ❤️