For fans of Celeste Ng and Ann Patchett, this quietly beautiful book will break, then mend, your heart -- Sarah Gelman - Amazon, The Best Books of 2023

The ghosts of lost children haunt generations in this lucid and assured début - The New Yorker

A poignant debut from a writer to watch - Kirkus, Starred Review

Marvellous ... I can’t believe Amanda Peters is just getting started ... She’s going to be the next big thing ... The Berry Pickers is a triumph - Katherena Vermette, author of The Strangers

Enthralling ... Powerfully rendered ... A cogent and heartfelt look at the ineffable pull of family ties - Publishers Weekly

Wonderful ... Indigenous stories like this matter, and while little is easy for Peters’ characters, in the end, for all of them – even those who stole a small child – there is hope - Emily Dziuban, Booklist

Poignant ... Reads like a modern literary classic ... Moving, heartbreaking, and hopeful, The Berry Pickers is a powerful tale of haunting regret, bonds that will never be broken, and unrelenting love - Nick Medina, author of Sisters of the Lost Nation

[Peters] excels in writing characters for whom we can’t help rooting - New York Times

The Berry Pickers is just like a handful of berries ... filled with so much sweet, so much sour, so much juice. Reading this book, I was only ever hungry when it ended - Morgan Talty, author of Night of the Living Rez

Peters brilliantly crafts a multi-layered tale of how one irrational act creates irrevocable harm that ripples through multiple lives ... A fluid and emotional read that is both plainly and beautifully rendered ... An amazing read from an amazing new voice - Michelle Good, author of Five Little Indians

A beautiful novel about family and about the way it makes and breaks and remakes us again ... It contains a cast of characters you will never forget. With this book, Amanda Peters establishes herself as an essential new voice - Alexander MacLeod, author of Animal Person

Peters weaves a persistent thread of hope and resilience through her remarkable debut novel - Allison Zhao, Acta Victoriana

Lyrical ... You cannot help but love these characters from the first chapter, they stay with you long after the last page - Cherie Dimaline, author of The Marrow Thieves

Hauntingly beautiful ... A page-turner that will stay with readers long after they’ve finished reading it - The Suburban

Heartbreaking and genuine, this saga of a family dealing with the disappearance of a beloved child will resonate with readers of historical fiction, Indigenous fiction and anyone who enjoys a solidly written story - Winnipeg Free Press

AMANDA PETERS is a writer of Mi’kmaq and settler ancestry. A graduate of the Master of Fine Arts Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, she has a Certificate in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto. She is the winner of the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award for Unpublished Prose and a participant in the 2021 Writers’ Trust Rising Stars program. She lives in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia. The Berry Pickers is her first novel.