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That story became “The Berry Pickers,” an instant bestseller chronicling the disappearance of a four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl from the blueberry fields of Maine in July 1962. Peters will discuss both that acclaimed debut and her newly released short story collection in a virtual author talk on Thursday, November 13, with multiple libraries participating in the free online event.
The conversation takes place at 4 p.m. Pacific time for LA County Library participants and at 7 p.m. Eastern time for readers joining through Danbury Library, Ocean County Library in Toms River, New Jersey, and Indianapolis Public Library.
Peters’ debut has earned extraordinary honors since its early 2023 publication. She won the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, becoming the first Canadian to receive the award since its inception in 2012. She also won the Barnes & Noble 2023 Discover Prize and the Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence for Best Crime First Novel.
The novel tells its story through alternating perspectives of Ruthie’s six-year-old brother Joe and Norma, a woman who grows up in an affluent white family but is troubled by dreams that seem more like memories.
A writer of Mi’kmaq and settler ancestry, Peters is now an Associate Professor at Acadia University in Nova Scotia.
“Author Talk: The Search for Truth and the Persistence of Love Across Time with Novelist Amanda Peters” will run on Thursday, Nov. 13 at 4 p.m. Online virtual event. For more information, call (562) 940-8400 or visit https://www.cityofpasadena.net/library/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D189446599. Ticket prices: Free; registration required.
