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A haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakhóta family’s struggle to preserve their way of life, and their sacrifices to protect what matters most.
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A haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakhóta 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 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 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. One Book One Broward is supported by the Broward Public Library Foundation.
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Celebrating Broward County Library’s One Book One Broward 2026 program will center on the reconciliation and regeneration of our communities cultural and indigenous traditions which are bound by coastal reefs to the East and Everglades wetlands to the West. Weaving together the voices of four indelible women, The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson is a story of reawakening, of remembering our original relationship to the seeds and, through them, to our ancestors. Spanning several generations, the novel follows a Dakhóta family’s struggle to preserve their way of life, and their sacrifices to protect what matters most.
AGE GROUP: | New Adults | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Outreach | Discussion/Lecture | Clubs & Groups | Books |
TAGS: | One Book One Broward |
| Mon, Jan 12 | 10:00AM to 8:00PM |
| Tue, Jan 13 | 10:00AM to 8:00PM |
| Wed, Jan 14 | 10:00AM to 8:00PM |
| Thu, Jan 15 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Fri, Jan 16 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Sat, Jan 17 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Sun, Jan 18 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
