The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters, 2023
A Mi’kmaq family’s summer in a Maine blueberry field ends in a child’s disappearance; decades later, a woman begins to question the silence she was raised in.
Amanda Peters
Amanda Peters is a Mi’kmaq writer from Nova Scotia; The Berry Pickers won the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
Feels like family, grief and identity.
For an only child, books are more than paper; they are a way out.
I found it strange that no word exists for a parent who loses a child. If children lose their parents, they are orphans. If a husband loses his wife, he’s a widower. But there’s no word for a parent who loses a child. I’ve come to believe that the event is just too big, too monstrous, too overwhelming for words. No word could ever describe the feeling, so we leave it unsaid. Books by Amanda Peters
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