~ Trade Paperback
~ Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Fiction - 2024
~ New Release - 2023
A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that remains unsolved for nearly fifty years . . .
A stunning debut novel, The Berry Pickers is a riveting story about the search for truth, the shadow of trauma, and the persistence of love across time that will appeal to readers of Britt Bennett's The Vanishing Half and/or kali Fajardo-Anstine's Woman of Light.
"The strength of Amanda Peters’s novel lies in its understanding of how trauma spreads through a life and a family, and its depiction of the challenges facing Indigenous people. The Berry Pickers is a powerful message about truth, forgiveness and healing." -- Washington Post