TAPC's Cindy Kinney will lead us in a discussion of The Berry Pickers (2023) by Amanda Peters (320 pages). This story follows two families as they grapple with grief and secrets over nearly 50 years. An indigenous family from Nova Scotia whose youngest daughter, Ruthie, disappears from blueberry fields in Maine in 1962, a mystery that haunts her family for decades, particularly her brother Joe, while an affluent white girl, Norma, grows up with secrets about her own past that connect to the event
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