{"title":"Amanda Peters","description":"AMANDA PETERS is a writer of Mi'kmaq and settler ancestry. Her debut novel, The Berry Pickers was the winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the 2023 Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Discover Prize, and was shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Fiction Award from the Writers Trust of Canada. Her work has also appeared in the Antigonish Review,  Grain Magazine, the Alaska Quarterly Review, the Dalhousie Review and Filling Station Magazine. She is the winner of the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award for Unpublished Prose and a participant in the 2021 Writers' Trust Rising Stars program. Amanda is a graduate of the Master of Fine Arts Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and has a Certificate in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto.","products":[{"product_id":"the-berry-pickers-paperback","title":"The Berry Pickers - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003e 2023 Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Discover Prize Winner\u003cbr\u003e Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA four-year-old Mi'kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a mystery that will haunt the survivors, unravel a family, and remain unsolved for nearly fifty years \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A stunning debut about love, race, brutality, and the balm of forgiveness.\" --\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e, A Best New Book \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJuly 1962. Following in the tradition of Indigenous workers from Nova Scotia, a Mi'kmaq family arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister's disappearance for years to come. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, her mother frustratingly overprotective. Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. As she grows older, Norma slowly comes to realize there is something her parents aren't telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, she will spend decades trying to uncover this family secret. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An unforgettable exploration of grief, love, and kin,\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e), this show stopping debut by a vibrant new voice in fiction is a riveting novel about the search for truth, the shadow of trauma, and the persistence of love across time.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101234991327,"sku":"9781646222384","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/KrYi9Jk-509781646222384.webp?v=1781068525"},{"product_id":"waiting-for-the-long-night-moon-stories-paperback","title":"Waiting for the Long Night Moon: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Berry Pickers\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn her debut collection of short fiction, Amanda Peters describes the Indigenous experience from an astonishingly wide spectrum in time and place--from contact with the first European settlers, to the forced removal of Indigenous children, to the present-day fight for the right to clean water \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this intimate collection, Amanda Peters melds traditional storytelling with beautiful, spare prose to describe the dignity of the traditional way of life, the humiliations of systemic racism and the resilient power to endure. A young man returns from residential school only to realize he can no longer communicate with his own parents. A grieving mother finds purpose and healing on the front lines as a water protector. And a nervous child dances in her first Mawi'omi. The collection also includes the Indigenous Voices Award-winning and title story \"Waiting for the Long Night Moon.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt times sad, sometimes disturbing but always redemptive, the stories in \u003ci\u003eWaiting for the Long Night Moon\u003c\/i\u003e will remind you that where there is grief there is also joy, where there is trauma there is resilience and, most importantly, there is power.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102232383711,"sku":"9781646223213","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/RhsRwfFLgI9781646223213.webp?v=1781079188"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/amanda-peters.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}