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SUMMARY:Truth 4 Reconciliation Book Club -- The Berry Pickers
DESCRIPTION:The Berry Pickers\nJoin us for a T’Sou-ke Truth 4 Reconciliation book club discussion. We will be reading and discussing The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters. \nJuly 1962. A Mi’kmaq family from Nova Scotia 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. \nIn 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. \n  \nPlease register by emailing Vicki at vdolling@virl.bc.ca. We will send out a reading guide before the meeting. \nThere is a book club set available at the front desk of the Sooke Library for participants to sign out a copy. \n  \n 
URL:https://virl.bc.ca/event/truth-4-reconciliation-book-club-north-of-nowhere-north-of-nowhere-song-of-a-truth-and-reconciliation-commissioner/
LOCATION:Sooke Multipurpose Room\, 6671 Wadams Way\, Sooke\, British Columbia\, V9Z 1A4
CATEGORIES:Adults,Indigenous Voices,Seniors
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