The many lives in blue(berries).

Interview by Ben Wilkins

In Amanda Peters’s debut novel, The Berry Pickers, four-year-old Ruthie goes missing in 1962 from the Maine blueberry fields. As teenage Ruthie (now called Norma) grows up here in the 1970s, she can’t square her earliest memories with the stories of her childhood told by the people who call themselves her parents. The ensuing story delves into the shattering impacts of Maine’s colonialist past, shining a light on the state’s Indigenous migrant agricultural workers.

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