The Berry Pickers: A Novel

by Amanda Peters

Book Overview

NATIONAL BESTSELLER2023 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize WinnerWinner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction A four-year-old Mi'kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1443468185
• ISBN13: 9781443468183
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Emotional Damage

Whenever I read outside my chosen genre (horror), I feel like I never know what to say because I don't feel my review or opinion is as nuanced because I lack the experience others might have over me as something like this might be their normal speed/genre. Anyway, I really enjoyed this, it was so hard being with Norma as she grew up, knowing as Norma doesn't, waiting for the penny to fully drop and for her to find out the truth. There were small, important topics in the backdrop of this story, residential schools (or maybe I'm assuming that's where the Indigenous kids went? I could be totally wrong) and lost language as a result. This book was heavy and hard, and I cried a lot at the end but I'm glad I had the chance to read this. The only thing that stopped this from being a 5 star read is I really struggled with Joe's chapters. I know I literally just said this was a hard, heavy book but Joe's chapters felt a little like tragedy pr0n. Every time I switched to Joe I was like "Oh boy, here we go, what's going to happen to this poor guy now?" I don't know that it felt heavy handed exactly, but it felt like a lot on top of the overarching story. I don't know, again, I'm outside of my depths here and I could be way off the mark but it's just how I felt. Worth the read though, 100%