Review: “The Seed Keeper” by Diane Wilson

“The Seed Keeper” by Diane Wilson (Photo by imso gabriel on Unsplash)

As being addicted to watching and identifying dynamics withour society, The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson immersed me fully. Over all this fiction-novel of a Native American Woman trying to friend roots, her roots, in this world again after all the crimes white society did to her family and still does, brings underlying dynamics of power to the surface.

This novel grasps the society’s enemy of striving for momentary profit without considering anything else outside one’s own skin, not even this fragile planet earth. Throughout this novel it becomes clear that there has been devastating destruction of lives of all kinds in the past and it continues to be there with every following generation. It is presented as an ongoing, unending battle which assures the winners of the past to maintain their privileges in the future. Yet alone as these winners go ignorant through the battle, ignoring any sense of righteousness, responsibility and regret of the victims they leave behind. This battle becomes a routine and the repeating winning destroyers start functioning as machines whose speed keeps getting faster and faster. It starts to get comfortable seeing oneself rising above others, gaining power and control. There is no space for doubts or any willingness to leave this comfort zone of being the winner, because that would cause the loss of one’s own won privileges.

This book is worth a second reading to actually catch all the details and interlaying dynamics of society that it displays. Thrilling, catching and eye-opening work, a book that holds a seed, waiting to be planted in the reader's heart to bear fruits for a place of hope.