Everything you need to understand or teach The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters.
In Amanda Peters's novel The Berry Pickers, Joe's life changes forever when his sister Ruthie goes missing from the blueberry fields in Maine during the summer of 1962. Years later, when Joe is on his deathbed, he obsessively revisits the day of Ruthie's disappearance in an attempt to resolve the past. Meanwhile, Norma lives with the unanswered questions of her past. Her first person account intersects with Joe's throughout the novel, enacting the author's themes of family, loss, and memory.
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