Real Native Romance

Two cooks go foraging and find love in a berry patch... 2024 Minnesota Book Award Finalist Native Love Jams is a debut work of contemporary romance by Tashia Hart, author of The Good Berry Cookbook: Harvesting and Cooking Wild Rice and Other Wild Foods. As the village of Rainy Bay works out the kinks in their first Indigenous Food Days, Winnow 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 second book to follow Winnow; the first book is Girl Unreserved, a fictionalized retelling of the author's own coming of age story.