(Ebook) The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson ISBN B08ZSJS1B6

(Ebook) The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson ISBN B08ZSJS1B6

Winner of the 2022 Minnesota Book Award in FictionLonglisted for the 2022 VCU Cabell First Novelist AwardA haunting novel spanning several generations follows a Dakhóta family’s struggle to preserve their way of life, & their sacrifices to protect what matters most.Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakhóta people. Until, one morning, Ray doesn’t return from checking his traps. Told she has no family, Rosalie is sent to live with a foster family in nearby Mankato—where the reserved, bookish teenager meets rebellious Gaby Makespeace, in a friendship that transcends the damaged legacies they’ve inherited.On a winter’s day many years later, Rosalie returns to her childhood home. A widow & mother, she has spent the previous two decades on her white husband’s farm, finding solace in her garden even as the farm is threatened first by drought & then by a predatory chemical company. Now, grieving, Rosalie begins to confront the past, on a search for family, identity, & a community where she can finally belong. In the process, she learns what it means to be descended from women with souls of iron—women who have protected their families, their traditions, & a precious cache of seeds through generations of hardship & loss, through war & the insidious trauma of boarding schools.Weaving together the voices of four indelible women, The Seed Keeper is a beautifully told story of reawakening, of remembering our original relationship to the seeds and, through them, to our ancestors.°°°Diane Wilson (Dakota) is the author of a memoir, Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past, which won a Minnesota Book Award & was selected for the One Minneapolis One Read program, as well as a nonfiction book, Beloved Child: A Dakota Way of Life, which was awarded the Barbara Sudler Award from History Colorado.