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Native Rights and Culture in Fiction

A Conversation with Mona Susan Power

You’re invited to join us as Mona Susan Power chats about her newest novel, A Council of Dolls, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction.

Mona Susan Power will highlight how her novel, A Council of Dolls, explores Native Rights and Native American culture, particularly using an important symbol that anchors comfort and companionship in Native life: dolls. From the mid-century metropolis of Chicago to the windswept ancestral lands of the Dakota people to the bleak and brutal Indian boarding schools, A Council of Dolls is the story of three women, told in part through the stories of the dolls they carried.

About the Author: Mona Susan Power is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. She is the author of three previously published works of fiction: The Grass Dancer, which won the Pen/Hemingway Prize, Sacred Wilderness, and Roofwalker. Her short stories have been published by The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, The Best American Short Stories, and more.

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