YPL Presents: Novelist Amanda Peters on Race, Love & Loneliness

Join an online conversation with writer Amanda Peters as we discuss her bestselling novel, The Berry Pickers, as well as her tender short fiction collection, Waiting for the Long Night Moon. 

Influenced by Peters’ own Mi’kmaq heritage, The Berry Pickers is a riveting exploration of family, grief, and the bonds we share. 

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The YPL Presents: Virtual Author series is funded and supported by the Foundation for the Yonkers Public Library.

About the Author: Amanda Peters is a mixed-race woman of Mi’kmaq and European ancestry, born and raised in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia. Her short fiction and non-fiction have been published in The Antigonish Review, Grain Magazine, The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Dalhousie Review, and Filling Station Magazine. Her first novel, The Berry Pickers, was a finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize in Canada and won the Barnes and Noble Discover Prize and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Her most recent book of short fiction, Waiting for the Long Night Moon, was published to critical acclaim.

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