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SUMMARY:The Search for Truth and the Persistence of Love Across Time with Novelist Amanda Peters
DESCRIPTION:\n\nJoin us in an online conversation with acclaimed writer 
 Amanda Peters as we discuss her instant bestselling novel\, The Berry 
 Pickers\, as well as her tender short fiction collection\, Waiting for the 
 Long Night Moon: Stories. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister 
 here:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInfluenced by Peters’ own Mi’kmaq heritage\, 
 The Berry Pickers is a riveting exploration of family\, grief\, and the 
 bonds we share. \n\nJuly 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.\n\nIn 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.\n\nThe Berry Pickers is an 
 intimate portrait of race\, love\, and loneliness–and the power of 
 forgiveness. Register now to take part in the discussion!\n\n\n\nAbout the 
 Author: Amanda Peters is a mixed-race woman of Mi’kmaq and European 
 ancestry\, born and raised in the Annapolis Valley\, Nova Scotia. Her short 
 fiction and non-fiction have been published in The Antigonish Review\, 
 Grain Magazine\, The Alaska Quarterly Review\, The Dalhousie Review\, and 
 Filling Station Magazine.\n\nAmanda’s first novel\, The Berry Pickers\, 
 was a finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize in 
 Canada\, and won the Barnes and Noble Discover Prize and the Carnegie Medal 
 for Excellence in Fiction in the US. The Berry Pickers won the Dartmouth 
 Book Award and the Crime Writers of Canada First Crime Novel Award\, and 
 has been translated into sixteen languages around the world. Her most 
 recent book of short fiction\, Waiting for the Long Night Moon\, was 
 published August\, 2024\, to critical 
 acclaim.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin 
 Meeting: https://libraryc.org/washoecountylibrary/100194
LOCATION:Online Event
ORGANIZER;CN="John Andrews-Test":MAILTO:jandrews@washoecounty.us
CATEGORIES:Author Talk, Books & Reading
CONTACT;CN="John Andrews-Test":MAILTO:jandrews@washoecounty.us
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