{"id":24522,"date":"2024-07-30T12:28:19","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T16:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=24522"},"modified":"2024-07-30T12:28:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T16:28:19","slug":"lost-on-a-barren-in-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/lost-on-a-barren-in-maine\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost on a Barren in Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23dadada&amp;d=issuusmaller&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=50&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p2\">The many lives in <b>blue(berries)<\/b>.<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\">Interview by Ben Wilkins<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">In <strong>Amanda Peters\u2019s<\/strong> debut novel, <strong><em>The Berry Pickers<\/em><\/strong>, four-year-old Ruthie goes missing in 1962 from the Maine blueberry fields. As teenage Ruthie (now called Norma) grows up here in the 1970s, she can\u2019t square her earliest memories with the stories of her childhood told by the people who call themselves her parents. The ensuing story delves into the shattering impacts of Maine\u2019s colonialist past, shining a light on the state\u2019s Indigenous migrant agricultural workers.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24524\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/LostOnABarren-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/LostOnABarren-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/LostOnABarren-1-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/LostOnABarren-1-480x251.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Love<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1346],"class_list":["post-24522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-july-august-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24522"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24562,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24522\/revisions\/24562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}