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SUMMARY:Novel Thoughts Book Club: The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters (In-P
 erson)
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LOCATION:801 N. Main St.\nWauconda IL 60084
ROOM: Lincoln Room
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we discuss The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters.Books
  are available at the Adult Help Desk. About the book: A four-year-old M
 i’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a 
 tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a community, and remain
 s unsolved for nearly fifty years.July 1962. A Mi’kmaq family from Nova 
 Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, f
 our-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 e
 dge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister’s disappe
 arance for years to come.In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as th
 e 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 d
 ecades trying to uncover this family secret.For readers of The Vanishing H
 alf 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 trau
 ma, and the persistence of love across time.
URL:https://www.wauclib.org/event/novel-thoughts-book-club-berry-pickers-p
 erson-42056
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