Adult Book Club: The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson

Name: Adult Book Club: The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson
Start: 2024-05-11T14:00:00-05:00
Location: Trussville Public Library

Schedule

Sat May 11 2024 at 02:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Trussville Public Library | Trussville, AL

Join us for Adult Book Club! Connect with your community and share your thoughts about the books you've read. Adult Book Club meets on the first Saturday of each month at 2PM at the library. Contact the Adult Department (205-655-2022 or [email protected]) if you need assistance in obtaining books or have any question.
May's Book: The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson
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.
On a winter's day many years later, Rosalie returns to her childhood home. A widow and 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 and then by a predatory chemical company. Now, grieving, Rosalie begins to confront the past, on a search for family, identity, and 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, and a precious cache of seeds through generations of hardship and loss, through war and 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.