The Berry Pickers: a novel

'For fans of Celeste Ng and Ann Patchett, this quietly beautiful book will break, then mend, your heart' Amazon, The Best Books of 2023WINNER OF THE 2023 BARNES & NOBLE DISCOVER PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2024 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION***One family's deepest pain. Another family's darkest secret. On 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 h er, Joe will be forever haunted by grief, guilt, and the agony of imagining how his life could have been. In 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. The Berry Pickers is an exquisitely moving story of unrelenting hope, unwavering love, and the power of family - even in the face of grief and betrayal. 'Marvellous ... Amanda Peters is going to be the next big thing ... The Berry Pickers is a triumph' Katherena Vermette, author of The Strangers'Peters excels in writing characters for whom we can't help rooting' The New York Times'Lucid and assured' The New Yorker, Best Books of 2023 EAN: 9781405965927 Farbverschnitt: Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. Erscheinungsjahr: 12.09.2024 Produktform: Kartoniert Autoren: Peters, Amanda Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: 306 Themenüberschrift: FICTION / Indigenous / General (see also Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island or Native American) Keyword: best books 2023; amazon; books of the year; historical fiction; historical fiction books paperback; historical novels; historical fiction books; bestseller; waterstones; barnes and noble; anne tyler; ann patchett; kidnap; book club; reese witherspoon; oprah; regret; grief; siblings; nova scotia; indigenous; britt bennett; the vanishing half; kim edwards; the memory keeper's daughter; tiffany mcdaniel; betty; celeste ng; little fires everywhere; delia owens; crawdads; where the crawdads sing; historical; literary fiction; contemporary fiction Fachschema: Amerikanische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung~Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung~Maine (USA) / Roman, Erzählung~Sechziger Jahre / Roman, Erzählung~Maine (USA) Fachkategorie: Historischer Roman~Belletristik: Themen, Stoffe, Motive: Tod, Trauer, Verlust~Erzählerisches Thema: Identität / Zugehörigkeit, Moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik Region: Maine Zeitraum: 1960 bis 1969 n. Chr. Interesse Alter: Bezug zu indigenen Völkern Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) verfügbar ab: 20240912 Länge: 197 mm Breite: 127 mm Höhe: 22 mm Gewicht: 226 gr Genre: Importe