The Berry Pickers : A Novel Indigeneity The author has done extensive

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The Berry Pickers : A Novel Indigeneity The author has done extensiveAmanda Peters is a writer of Mikmaq and settler ancestry. July 1962. A Mikmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four year old Ruthie, the familys youngest child, vanishes mysteriously. She is last seen by her six year old brother, Joe, sitting on her favourite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain deeply affected by his sisters disappearance for years to come. In Boston, a young girl