The Berry Pickers

NATIONAL BESTSELLER 2023 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize Winner Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction A 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 Book 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