<b>INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER<br><br>NATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR<br>Carnegie-Winning Author \u2022 Winner of the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize\u00a0\u2022\u00a0A <i>New Yorker<\/i> Best Book of the Year<br> <br> From the bestselling author of <i>The Berry Pickers<\/i>, an unforgettable novel about a woman who must confront her family\u2019s buried truths and memories of passionate young love when her grandmother\u2019s death leaves her as the only guide to her community\u2019s future<\/b><br><br>Born under the shadow of a birthing tree sacred to generations of Mi\u2019kmaq women, Aliet Paul grows up outside a small Nova Scotia town with her fierce, loving grandmother Kiju. Her mother died bringing Aliet into the world under that very tree; her father remains a mystery no one will name. Aliet\u2019s childhood is shaped by seasonal apple pickers, the medicinal wisdom of the old ways, and the quiet, steadfast presence of John, a boy who becomes her anchor.<br><br>But the world beyond their community is changing. Traditional midwifery is condemned, prejudice deepens, and when the wrong person witnesses a birth, the consequences are disastrous. As Aliet comes of age, she navigates love, loss, and a personal tragedy that veers her from the path her grandmother wanted for her. She becomes a nurse trained in modern medicine, yet she carries Kiju\u2019s teachings close, tucked beside memories of the tree that once welcomed new life.<br><br>Years later, when the call comes that Kiju has died, Aliet returns home to a crumbling house, a community scattered, and a past she thought she\u2019d outrun. As Aliet restores the house room by room, something inside her stirs awake: the threads of her lineage, the old ways of her grandmother, and the mystery of her own bloodline.\u00a0<br><br>As Aliet digs to uncover who her family really is, each revelation pulls her deeper into a web of long-guarded silences, dangerous loyalties, and generational wounds that refuse to stay buried: Someone knew the truth about her mother\u2019s final moments. Someone knew what happened in the orchard all those years ago. And someone wants the past to remain undisturbed.<br><br>Spanning decades of loss and reclamation, this sweeping yet intimate novel follows one woman\u2019s journey to protect the land, the traditions, and the memory of the women who came before her\u2014and to decide which parts of her inheritance she will carry into the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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