The Berry Pickers Fiction The Skin and Its Girl

The Skin and Its Girl is a searing

Maggie will have to decide what's more important: the books that formed a small town's history

an uncanny and playful novel that blurs the line between human and beast

and is slowly drawn deeper into a mystery that threatens her very sense of self

It starts with a body - a young woman found dead in an Iowa cornfield

The Berry Pickers Fiction The Skin and Its GirlA four year old Mi'kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a family, and will remain unsolved for nearly fifty years 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, sitting on a favorite rock at the