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The Seed Keeper
Contemporary fiction
The Seed Keeper
After her white farmer husband dies, Rosalie Iron Wing returns to the Minnesota cabin and Dakhota roots from which foster care separated her as a child. Her story intertwines with those of Dakhota women across generations who protect seeds, family memory, and relationships to the land. Friendship, marriage, industrial agriculture, and the legacy of forced removal shape what Rosalie has lost and what she may reclaim. Meditative and multigenerational, this novel suits readers interested in Indigenous family histories, seed keeping, environmental themes, cultural survival, and women's knowledge carried through displacement and silence.
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Death and grief; Indigenous genocide and forced assimilation; racism and colonial violence; family separation; historical trauma; domestic/family dysfunction; environmental destruction.
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Ancient Mariner Lime Tonic
Crisp cucumber and lime bring a bracing edge to this lightly salted tonic.
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- Fill a highball glass with ice. Add lime juice and cucumber, top with tonic water, stir gently, and finish with a tiny pinch of sea salt.
- Garnish: Cucumber slice or lime wheel.
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Cabernet Sauvignon
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