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SUMMARY:Online Author Talk : Amanda Peters
DESCRIPTION:Register here and submit your questions for the author before 
 the event begins.\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\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\nJoin Meeting: https://libraryc.org/losgatoscalibrary/100104
LOCATION:Zoom (Online)
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