One Book, One Community: A Council of Dolls

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Book Talk, CV Book Fest, One Book, One Community

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Adults
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A part of the 2024 Chippewa Valley Book Festival! Co-sponsored by the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library.

Mona Susan Power will discuss her new novel, A Council of Dolls, a story that focuses on the lingering impact the Indian Boarding School experience has on three generations of a Dakhóta family.

Attendees will be mindful of how much the past is never truly past, but still impacts us today–we are being called to reckon with difficult histories in order to help heal our present circumstances and challenges.

A Council of Dolls is the seventh title selected for the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library’s One Book, One Community reading initiative. More information available at www.ecpubliclibrary.info/onebook.

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 (longlisted for the National Book Award, and Carol Shields Prize). Fellowships in support of her work include a Radcliffe Bunting Institute Fellowship, Princeton Hodder Fellowship, USA Artists Fellowship, and McKnight Fellowship. Her short stories and essays have been widely published in journals, and anthologies, and her essay, "Bloodthread," is forthcoming in The Georgia Review. Power is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, born and raised in Chicago. She currently lives in Minnesota.

Learn more about Mona Susan Power at monasusanpower.com.

Program Sponsors: Friends of the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library, Mayo Clinic Health System, Chippewa Valley Museum and the Wisconsin Humanities Council*.

*Funded in part by a grant from Wisconsin Humanities, with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Wisconsin Humanities strengthens our democracy through educational and cultural programs that build connections and understanding among people of all backgrounds and beliefs throughout the state. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this project do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.