Join award-winning and bestselling author Mona Susan Power as she highlights her novel "A Council of Dolls." It explores the healing of intergenerational trauma, using an important symbol that often anchors comfort and companionship in children's lives: dolls. Power will also discuss one of her current writing projects, a novel about hauntings, and her process of writing, discovering and researching these fascinating and intense stories. For adults. A Minnesota legacy program.
Wescott
Wednesday, Oct. 1, 6–7:30 p.m.
About the author
Mona Susan Power is the author of four books of fiction: "The Grass Dancer" (awarded the PEN/Hemingway prize), "Roofwalker," "Sacred Wilderness," and "A Council of Dolls" (winner of the Minnesota Book Award and the High Plains Book Award, longlisted for the National Book Award and the Carol Shields Prize).
Fellowships in support of her work include an Iowa Arts Fellowship, James Michener Fellowship, Radcliffe Bunting Institute Fellowship, Princeton Hodder Fellowship, USA Artists Fellowship, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Fellowship, and McKnight Fellowship. Power is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe (Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋna Dakhóta), born and raised in Chicago. She currently lives in Minnesota, where she's completing a new novel.
