A Council of Dolls by Mona Power | Fiction
Wednesday, January 17 | 6:30 p.m.
Rondo Community Library | 461 North Dale Street, Saint Paul
OR via Zoom | REGISTER HERE

About the Book

From mid-century Chicago to the ancestral lands of the Dakota people, to the bleak and brutal Indian boarding schools, this is the story of three women, told in part through the stories of the dolls they carried. The novel is ultimately hopeful and shines a light on the echoing damage wrought by Indian boarding schools, and the historical massacres of Indigenous people.

About the Author

Mona Susan Power is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. She is the author of three previously published works of fiction, The Grass Dancer, Sacred Wilderness, and Roofwalker. Mona is a graduate of Harvard and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She lives and teaches in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

About the Fireside Reading Series

Great authors by the fireside.

FREE
Wednesdays | January 10 – January 31, 2024 | 6:30 p.m.
New location: Rondo Community Library, 461 North Dale Street, Saint Paul
or via Zoom
thefriends.org/fireside

Cozy up for four weeks of readings with great writers. Fireside Reading Series, in partnership with Saint Paul Public Library for 30 years, highlights some of Minnesota’s finest writers who have published new work.

These programs are made possible in part through an appropriation from the Minnesota State Legislature to The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library as the Minnesota Center for the Book.

All Fireside Events

Wednesday, January 10
Nigar Alam, Under the Tamarind Tree
Fiction

Wednesday, January 17
Mona Power, A Council of Dolls
Fiction

Wednesday, January 24
Jody Lulich, In the Company of Grace
Memoir

Wednesday, January 31  
Raymond Luczak, Far From Atlantis
Poetry