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Minnesota author to discuss ‘The Seed Keeper’
Minnesota author Diane Wilson will discuss her new novel “The Seed Keeper” virtually from noon to 1 p.m. June 21, as a live event on the Friends of the Brainerd Public Library Facebook page.
Diane Wilson
While the Brainerd Public Library is now hosting in-person events, Brown Bag Lunch author visits have continued virtually.
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. In the novel, 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, when 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 teenage
WE ARE HONORED to present to you the very first
Massachusetts Review issue focused on Native American writing. We are thankful to Associate Editor N. C. Christopher Couch and the rest of the MR team for dreaming up this issue and for asking us to be guest editors, and we are especially thankful to the writers and artists whose work we’ve chosen for this special issue. Their words and images are a gift.
This issue, as it was first imagined, was set to coincide with and push back against Massachusetts’s planned celebration of the four hundredth anniversary of the