Wilson skillfully discusses the difficult subjects of land dispossession and contemporary farming, family separation and legacy, and Dakota and settler lifeways through food, the growing of and caring for seeds. This book is so warm hearted and eventually full of connection. It's sad and beautiful.Publisher's description:
One snowy winter's day, Rosalie Iron Wing returns to the home from which she was taken as a child. Orphan, widow, and mother--journalist and gardener--Rosalie has spent the previous two decades watching as her white husband's family farm is threatened first by drought and then by a predatory chemical company. Now, grieving, she finally begins to confront the past and embrace the future--and, in the process, 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.