Alumni Book Club

Wednesday, November 20, 2024
12 - 1 p.m.

Virtual meetings are typically the last Wednesday of the month at 12 p.m. CT. This month's meeting is the second to last Wednesday of the month due to Thanksgiving falling late this year.

This month we will have an open discussion on The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters.

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. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister’s disappearance for years to come.

In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, her mother frustratingly overprotective. Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. As she grows older, Norma slowly comes to realize there is something her parents aren’t telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, she will spend decades trying to uncover this family secret.

This is a riveting novel about the search for truth, the shadow of trauma, and the persistence of love across time.

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