The Birthing Tree by Amanda Peters – Release Date 9/1

From the National Bestselling, Carnegie-Winning author of The Berry Pickers—and winner of the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize—comes a sweeping, tender novel about family, legacy, and the secrets that both bind and endanger us.

Settle in. This one will hold you.

Born under a birthing tree sacred to generations of Mi’kmaq women, Aliet Paul grows up just outside a small Nova Scotia town with her fierce, loving grandmother, Kiju. Her mother died beneath that very tree bringing Aliet into the world. Her father? A mystery no one will name.

Aliet’s childhood is shaped by seasonal apple pickers, the medicinal wisdom of the old ways, and the steadfast presence of John—the boy who becomes her anchor. But the world beyond their community is shifting. Traditional midwifery is condemned, prejudice deepens, and when the wrong person witnesses a birth, everything changes.

Years later, when word comes that Kiju has died, Aliet returns to a crumbling house and a past she thought she’d outrun. As she restores the home room by room, buried truths begin to surface—about her mother’s final moments, about the orchard, about the bloodline she’s spent a lifetime trying to understand.

Someone knew the truth. And someone wants it to stay buried.

Spanning decades of loss and reclamation, The Birthing Tree is intimate and expansive all at once—a story of the women who came before, and the inheritance we choose to carry forward.

A new hardcover we’re proud to have on our shelves. Come linger a while, and let this one find you.

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