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Interview with Mona Susan Power about A Council of Dolls (Mariner, 2023), winner of the Minnesota Book Award in Fiction and longlisted for the National Book Award and the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction.

Interview with Mona Susan Power about A Council of Dolls (Mariner, 2023), winner of the Minnesota Book Award in Fiction and longlisted for the National Book Award and the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction.

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PAIGE RIEHL: Thank you, Mona, for talking with me about your award-winning novel A Council of Dolls! Your novel is powerful and moving—a compelling story of family, coming-of-age, love, and historical and generational trauma. In A Council of Dolls, through the stories of three generations of women in one Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋna Dakhóta family, readers are taken on a powerful historical and… Read more →

Interview with Claire Wahmanholm about Meltwater (Milkweed, 2023), nominated for a Minnesota Book Award in Poetry

Interview with Claire Wahmanholm about Meltwater (Milkweed, 2023), nominated for a Minnesota Book Award in Poetry

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PAIGE RIEHL: Thank you, Claire, for speaking with me about your fourth book of poetry, Meltwater, a Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Finalist and a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award in poetry. Congratulations! I am so drawn to this collection for numerous reasons, one of which is the way you illustrate the complexities of existing as a person amid an ongoing… Read more →