We are very excited to welcome Amanda Peters talking about her debut novel The Berry Pickers! She has been featured as part of the The Maine Public Book Club series and at other venues around the state.
In her novel, “a four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a community, and remains unsolved for nearly fifty years.
July 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.
In 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.
For readers of The Vanishing Half and Woman of Light, this showstopping debut by a vibrant new voice in fiction is a riveting novel about the search for truth, the shadow of trauma, and the persistence of love across time.” Goodreads
Sponsor Bridgton Books will be onsite with The Berry Pickers for sale and signed by Amanda Peters. This presentation is supported by a grant from the Onion Foundation~Thank you!
The Denmark Author Series is a collaboration of Denmark Historical Society, Denmark Library & Denmark Arts Center & a generous community ANGEL who thought to pay it forward –
so much thanks!
The Denmark Arts Center is located at 50 W. Main St., Denmark. 207-452-2412
For more information and registration, go to the Denmark Arts Center at https://denmarkarts.org/events/
Books are available to borrow from the Denmark Public Library,
121 E. Main St., Denmark. 207-452-2022
In her novel, “a four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a community, and remains unsolved for nearly fifty years.
July 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.
In 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.
For readers of The Vanishing Half and Woman of Light, this showstopping debut by a vibrant new voice in fiction is a riveting novel about the search for truth, the shadow of trauma, and the persistence of love across time.” Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/
All Authors Series Events are held at the
Denmark Arts Center
and are pay-what-you-can. Refreshments are available.
Sponsor Bridgton Books will be onsite with The Berry Pickers for sale and signed by Amanda Peters. This presentation is supported by a grant from the Onion Foundation~Thank you!
The Denmark Author Series is a collaboration of Denmark Historical Society, Denmark Library & Denmark Arts Center & a generous community ANGEL who thought to pay it forward –
so much thanks!
The Denmark Arts Center is located at 50 W. Main St., Denmark. 207-452-2412
For more information and registration, go to the Denmark Arts Center at https://denmarkarts.org/
Books are available to borrow from the Denmark Public Library,
121 E. Main St., Denmark. 207-452-2022
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Venue
Denmark, ME 04022 United States + Google Map