Two cooks go foraging and find love in a berry patch…
As the village of Rainy Bay works out the kinks in their first Indigenous Food Days, Winnow Hart works out the kinks in her love life. Hired to forage and cook for the festival, Winnow arrives in the rural Minnesota community to find her host Niigaanii is as annoyingly attractive as he is unwelcoming. Can Winnow and Niigaanii pull thorns from the past and harvest the love they find in a berry patch?
Native Love Jams is the first book in the Real Native Romance collection. This collection features stories with Native characters, written by Native authors. A central theme of Native Love Jams is food sovereignty and is inspired by the intergenerational efforts in current times to strengthen local and wild food systems in tribal communities.
About the Author: Tashia Hart is an Anishinaabe writer, artist, and cook hailing from the Red Lake Nation in northern Minnesota.