In-Person Community Book Club: The Seed Keeper
Join us for Community Book Club! We’ll be meeting in-person on Monday, March 28 at 7 p.m. Email publicservices@whistlerlibrary.ca to sign up for this program.
Proof of vaccination is required to attend this program. Please ensure you have a digital or print copy of your Vaccine Card and a piece of government-issued photo ID. Click here to view the provincial proof of vaccination requirements.
If you’d prefer to join the virtual meeting on March 30, click here for the details.
- Who: Everyone welcome
- How much: Free
- Which book: The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson
- Where to get a copy: Borrow at WPL or buy at Armchair Books (mention the book club and receive 15% off)
Synopsis: 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, 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.
Read ahead: In April, we’ll discuss Greenwood by Michael Christie, and in May, we’ll be reading The Library of Legends by Janie Chang.
