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The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters is the April book pick for our monthly giveaway! In 1962 a four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl from Nova Scotia goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a family, and remains unsolved for nearly fifty years. This debut novel by Amanda Peters is about love, the search for truth, forgiveness, Indigenous family separation, and cultural erasure.

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The Berry Pickers – Book Review – Tropical Girl Reads

Check out our previous picks for further reading!

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
Untamed, Glennon Doyle
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, Cathy Park Hong
Homeland Elegies, Ayad Akhtar
Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishigur
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer
Crying in H-Mart, Michelle Zauner
The Last Thing He Told Me, Laura Daves
Before She Disappeared, Lisa Gardner
The Traveling Cat Chronicles, Hiro Arikawa
Why Didn't You Tell Me?, Carmen Rita Wong
The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh
The Chosen and the Beautiful, Nghi Vo
Our Missing Hearts, Celeste Ng
Priestdaddy, Patricia Lockwood
Somebody's Daughter, Ashley C. Ford

 

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