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hot take, turns out even if you avoid the overt government racism, there’s still normal First Nations racism to deal with

The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

July 18, 2025 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

BINGO: the letter “B” Tis the season for multiple POV books, I guess, as this flips between two interwoven lives and also between timelines. In the 70s (?) (ish?) the youngest daughter of a Mi’kmaq family goes missing during the annual berry picking season in Maine. Joe, the second youngest, is the last to have seen Ruthie, but despite everyone’s strenuous efforts she remains lost at the end of the season when everyone has to leave and go back to the homestead in Canada. Joe’s […]

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wicherwill's CBR17 Review No:27 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Amanda Peters, cbrbingo17 ·
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Not Berry Nice

The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

January 10, 2025 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

1n 1962, a family of Mi’kmaq tribe members from Nova Scotia travel to Maine for the summer to pick blueberries, as they have done for years. Near the end of this particular season, tragedy strikes when their youngest child, Ruthie, disappears without a trace one day. The local police are indifferent and the farmer pretty quickly insists that the family get back to work since their missing daughter “isn’t his problem.” Though the family keeps the search going for a long time, eventually they stop […]

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jeverett15's CBR17 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Amanda Peters ·
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