Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the wood s with her father\, Ray\, a former science teacher who tells her stories o f 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 fam ily\, Rosalie is sent to live with a foster family in nearby Mankato--wher e the reserved\, bookish teenager meets rebellious Gaby Makespeace\, in a friendship that transcends the damaged legacies they've inherited.
\nOn a winter's day many years later\, Rosalie returns to her childhood hom e. A widow and mother\, she has spent the previous two decades on her whit e husband's farm\, finding solace in her garden even as the farm is threat ened first by drought and then by a predatory chemical company. Now\, grie ving\, Rosalie begins to confront the past\, on a search for family\, iden tity\, 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 cach e of seeds through generations of hardship and loss\, through war and the insidious trauma of boarding schools.
\nWeaving together the voices of four indelible women\, The Seed Keeper is a beautifully told story of r eawakening\, of remembering our original relationship to the seeds and\, t hrough them\, to our ancestors.
\n--from Goodreads
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