Reasons For Reading This Book: The Berry Picked by Amanda Peters came across my social media from a few different book Instagram accounts. One I know posted about it is @halpreads. I have like most of the books that I have taken as a recommendation from Emily, so I trusted her again for this one. I read the book description, was semi-interested, so I checked it out from the library. Content of This Book: It's July 1962 and the A Mi’kmaq family from Nova Scotia has just arrived back in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. A few weeks into summer 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. Being the last one to see Ruthie leaves Joe distraught by his sister’s disappearance for years to come. In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, her mother frustratingly overprotectiv...