{"product_id":"the-berry-pickers-amanda-peters","title":"The Berry Pickers (Amanda Peters)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'For fans of Celeste Ng and Ann Patchett, this quietly beautiful book will break, then mend, your heart' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmazon, The Best Books of 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2023 BARNES \u0026amp; NOBLE DISCOVER PRIZE\u003cbr\u003eWINNER OF THE 2024 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne family's deepest pain. Another's darkest secret. Who will they be when the truth comes out?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn a hot day in 1960s Maine, six-year-old Joe watches his little sister Ruthie, sitting on her favourite rock at the edge of the blueberry fields, while their family, Mi'kmaq people from Nova Scotia, pick fruit. That afternoon, Ruthie vanishes without a trace. As the last person to see her, Joe will be forever haunted by grief, guilt, and the agony of imagining how his life could have been.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn an affluent suburb nearby, Norma is growing up as the only child of unhappy parents. She is smart, precocious, and bursting with questions she isn't allowed to ask - questions about her missing baby photos; questions about her dark skin; questions about the strange, vivid dreams of campfires and warm embraces that return night after night. Norma senses there are things her parents aren't telling her, but it will take decades to unravel the secrets they have kept buried since she was a little girl.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Berry Pickers \u003c\/i\u003eis an exquisitely moving story of unrelenting hope, unwavering love, and the power of family - even in the face of grief and betrayal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Marvellous ... Amanda Peters is going to be the next big thing ... \u003ci\u003eThe Berry Pickers \u003c\/i\u003eis a triumph' Katherena Vermette, author of\u003ci\u003e The Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Peters excels in writing characters for whom we can't help rooting' \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Lucid and assured' \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003eBest Books of 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAMANDA PETERS \u003c\/b\u003eis a writer of Mi'kmaq and settler ancestry. A graduate of the Master of Fine Arts Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, she has a Certificate in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto. She is the winner of the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award for Unpublished Prose and a participant in the 2021 Writers' Trust Rising Stars program. She lives in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia. \u003ci\u003eThe Berry Pickers \u003c\/i\u003eis her first novel.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 320 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65757915545949,"sku":"K097237702","price":10.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9723770200001A.jpg?v=1788201562","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-berry-pickers-amanda-peters","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}