Plymouth Reads 2025
Join us for a conversation with Mona Susan Power, author of the 2025 Plymouth READS selection, “A Council of Dolls.”
Thursday, April 10, 7:00 p.m.
Plymouth Community Center
Includes time for Q&A. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
The critically acclaimed “A Council of Dolls” is a “multilayered novel encompass[ing] three generations of Dakota women, delivering a family saga filled with pain and trauma while highlighting their resilience and enduring love.”
“This multilayered novel encompasses three generations of Dakota women, delivering a family saga filled with pain and trauma while highlighting their resilience and enduring love. Power, an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, writes with deep compassion for her complicated characters, especially the strong daughters of flawed mothers—a lineage of women whose magical childhood dolls hold their secrets and help them survive.”
— People magazine. “Book of the Week.” August 28, 2023, Vol. 100 Issue 9, p31.
Mona Susan Power is the author of four books of fiction, including A Council of Dolls (winner of the Minnesota Book Award, longlisted for the National Book Award), The Grass Dancer, Roofwalker, and Sacred Wilderness. She's a graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is also the recipient of several grants in support of her writing.
Mona is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe (Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋna Dakhóta), born and raised in Chicago. She currently lives in Minnesota.
Author photo by Ted Hall
Collaborators: Friends of the Plymouth Library, Plymouth Arts Council, City of Plymouth
Sponsor: Friends of the Hennepin County Library
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