Wednesday, November 6, 2024
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What We're Reading This Month... |
| The Berry Pickers is a poignant portrait of a Mi'kmaq family dealing with and healing from the disappearance of their youngest daughter. Told in dual timelines over decades, the novel tackles themes of family, grief, racism, motherhood, loss and the way trauma ripples across generations. A heartfelt and hopeful novel, The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters is an absolute must-read. |
What We Love: - The well-crafted characters
- The bonds between family
- The emotions it evokes
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Amanda Peters is a writer of Mi’kmaq and settler ancestry. Her debut novel, The Berry Pickers, is the winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence in Fiction and the 2023 Barnes & Noble Discovery Prize, and was shortlisted for the Barnes & Noble Book of the Year and the Atwood Gibson Fiction Award from the Writers Trust of Canada. Her work has also appeared in the Antigonish Review, Grain Magazine, the Alaska Quarterly Review, the Dalhousie Review and Filling Station Magazine. She is the winner of the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award for Unpublished Prose and a participant in the 2021 Writers’ Trust Rising Stars program. Amanda is a graduate of the Master of Fine Arts Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and has a certificate in creative writing from the University of Toronto. |
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