A haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakota family’s struggle to preserve their way of life, and 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 Dakota 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.
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.
Kristin Boldon –
A compulsive yet unsentimental page turner told from multiple POVs, with generational trauma through several families, focusing on farming in Minnesota. It is unflinching in its look at the costs of survival, both emotionally in humans, and to the earth. The humans may screw up, but the seeds, the treasure, endure.
Janette –
I liked the book
Meta –
The Seed Keeper is an amazing book about three native Indian women. It is very well told by Diane Wilson weaving fiction and history together in a way you just do not want to put the book down.
I learned a lot about the plight of the Indians back then and even now as well.
Elias –
I liked
Test –
Nice