The seed keeper : a novel

Resource Information

The work The seed keeper : a novel represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Nesmith Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The seed keeper : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Diane Wilson

Creator

• Wilson, Diane, 1954-

Author

• Wilson, Diane, 1954-

Subject

• Dakota Indians -- Fiction
• Domestic fiction
• Fiction
• Foster children -- Fiction
• Bildungsromans
• Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Fiction
• Generations -- Fiction
• Dakota Indians

Genre

• Fiction
• Domestic fiction
• Bildungsromans

Language

eng

Summary

"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."--Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.6

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction