Venuca Evanán

She selflessly cared for strangers

and selected stories from the rooms of AA meetings are presented for each of the 52 weeks of the year

and even the artist

We're going to have an Anishinaabe Christmas

The Berry Pickers Oji-Cree Venuca EvanánWinner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. This showstopping debut by a vibrant new voice in fiction is a riveting novel about the search for truth, the shadow of trauma, and the persistence of love across time. July 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,