Mona Susan Power

Nov 8, 2023 | link.newyorker.com | Scott Shane |Kenneth D. Miller |Mona Susan Power |Anna Holmes

Nonfiction | In the eighteen-forties, Thomas Smallwood, an educated free Black man, and Charles Torrey, a white abolitionist, began working together to free slaves. From Washington, D.C., they organized escapes and established the network of allies that Smallwood named the Underground Railroad.

Aug 23, 2023 | bookbrowse.com | Mona Susan Power

This article relates to A Council of Dolls Recent years have seen increased awareness of the ongoing trauma created by historical residential schools for Native children in North America, which were operated by government bodies and churches beginning in approximately the mid-1800s, and lasting until the 1960s in the United States and the 1990s in Canada.

Aug 12, 2023 | bookbrowse.com | Mona Susan Power

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Aug 8, 2023 | bookbrowse.com | Mona Susan Power

Book Summary The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native American author Mona Susan Power, spanning three generations of Yanktonai Dakota women from the 19th century to the present day.

Aug 3, 2023 | newspub.live | Mona Susan Power

Dolls play a significant role in Native American culture, and in “A Council of Dolls,” Mona Susan Power’s moving new novel, they give comfort to generations of Indigenous women struggling to connect with their history and themselves. Three dolls and three women are at the center of this story, and the PEN award winner’s narrative floats between the past and present as she writes about the historical events and generational trauma that inform the women’s lives.