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Mona Susan Power
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Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
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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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Sacred Wilderness
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Roofwalker
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2002
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"This novel follows generations of little girls forced to go to "Indian Boarding Schools" and their dolls. Each girl is given a doll who experiences what their owner is experiencing. Their dolls are the comfort they seek for the abuse they experience "
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"This one was SAD. I love multigenerational historical fiction novels, and all 3 women had equally devastating stories. I learned a lot of Dakhóta history, beginning with Sitting Bull and going through the abuse at Indian boarding schools and ending w"
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"I’m rounding this to 4 stars. The first three parts of the book I really enjoyed though hard to read because of the content, definitely 5 stars. But the last part felt disconnected, I could see what she was trying to do but it didn’t work for me and "
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"Really interesting but sad family anthology loved the concurrent theme of the dolls being a sentient object that held so much generational trauma in them that carried from owner to owner "
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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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