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Amanda Peters

Waiting for the Long Night Moon
The Berry Pickers

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Waiting for the Long Night Moon
The Berry Pickers

FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Amanda Peters’ The Berry Pickers

July 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. The mystery of her disappearance will haunt the survivors, unravel a family, cast a shadow of trauma over the community, and demonstrate the persistence of love across time in

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