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Author : Amanda Peters
Genre : Fiction
In July 1962, a Mi’kmaq family follows the tradition of indigenous Indian workers leaving Nova Scotia each summer to pick berries in Maine. That year, their youngest daughter, 4-year-old Ruthie, disappears without a trace. Her mother and her brother, Joe, think she’s still alive somewhere. but the police ignore they request for a search. It’s a story of a family suffering and surviving and the impact it has on both Joe’s and Ruthie’s lives.
“I don’t think anyone remembers when they started to make sense of the world. I can’t remember the first time I empathized with anyone, or the first time I noticed an adult and classified them as normal or odd, friendly or dangerous. I don’t remember the first time I cried at a movie because I felt broken-hearted for someone, or the first time I turned red with embarrassment at someone else’s blunder. But I do remember the day I first understood difference. And I don’t mean the difference between homemade chocolate chip cookies and store-bought. I’m talking about real difference.”
“I teach words. How to put them together to create fear or beauty or suspense. How a long line of words strung together can take you to a dinghy out on the ocean searching for a whale. I can teach words that can take you places that exist only in the imagination, introduce you to people so peculiar, so interesting that they can’t possibly be real, yet they are, on the page. If children lose their parents, they are orphans. I found it strange that no word exists for a parent who loses a child.”
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