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Mona Susan Power
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Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology (Never Whistle at Night, #1)
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2023
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A Council of Dolls
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2023
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The Grass Dancer
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1994
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Sacred Wilderness
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Roofwalker
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2002
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Ploughshares Fall 2021
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"I would say 4.5 stars! I thought the concept of this book was really unique and interesting. The book looks at three generations of indigenous women and how their lives were impacted by colonization and traumatic boarding school experiences. They are"
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"What I loved most is that the book does not treat memory as clean or linear. It moves through dolls, mothers, daughters, childhood perception, and ancestral grief with a kind of haunted clarity. It lets objects hold what people cannot. It lets the ch"
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"There were some points where the story felt disjointed, and the last chunk felt like a separate (though connected)story. I enjoyed reading it. "
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"Very interesting, didn’t love last section though"
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“She had always been different, even when she tried not to be, unable to curb her curiosity which led her to read a great number of books. Her world was constantly expanding until she could no longer fit herself into the culture that was most important to her.”
― The Grass Dancer
― The Grass Dancer
“...I learned that we can't heal the story by changing the plot, pretending the awful stuff didn't happen. Tragedy just breaks out somewhere else along the line. The story won't heal until the players do.”
― A Council of Dolls
― A Council of Dolls
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| Into the Forest: First Nation/Native American | 12 | 44 | Jul 25, 2013 10:20AM | |
| Into the Forest: Mary | 20 | 31 | Jul 01, 2014 06:10PM | |
| 2015: The Year of...: Susan Power | 4 | 11 | Dec 30, 2014 06:01PM | |
| 2015: The Year of...: Zitkala-Ša | 18 | 44 | Jan 07, 2015 09:58PM | |
| Into the Forest: Mar-Apr Group Read Theme Nominations | 23 | 39 | Feb 21, 2015 04:36AM | |
| Into the Forest: Mar 15-May 14 Group Read Book Nominations | 60 | 23 | Mar 17, 2015 11:02AM | |
| Into the Forest: Sacred Wilderness - No Spoilers | 22 | 15 | Apr 12, 2015 02:02PM | |
| Around the World ...: North Dakota | 4 | 119 | May 17, 2015 05:34PM | |
| Into the Forest: Sacred Wilderness - Spoilers | 72 | 29 | Sep 01, 2015 03:59PM |
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