Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction あんどりゅー・かーねぎー せいじんむけ ふぃくしょん および のんふぃくしょん ゆうしゅうしょう
Edition 13 (2024)
Adult FictionAdult NonfictionLibrary-related Literary AwardUnited States
Winners
1 peopleThe Berry Pickers is a novel that begins with the disappearance of a young Mi'kmaq girl in 1960s Maine and moves between the perspectives of Joe and Norma as buried family secrets come to light. Loss, memory, and the search for identity unfold in a quiet but emotionally forceful story.
The memory of a missing child and the family secrets that surface years later meet in a story that keeps widening in scope.
307 pages
family lossIndigenous communitymemory and identityintergenerational secretsloss and renewal