The Grass Dancer, Susan Power
The Grass Dancer, Susan Power
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The Grass Dancer

Author: Susan Power

Narrator: Susan Power

Unabridged: 9 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/11/2009

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

Back in the 1860s, Ghost Horse, a handsome young sacred clown, loved and lost to death the beautiful warrior woman Red Dress. As their spirits seek desperately to be reunited, they influence the sometimes violent fate of those who have followed them. Now in the 1980s, Red Dress's teenage descendant Charlene Thunder has fallen hopelessly in love with Harley Wind Soldier, the dashing traditional dancer of Ghost Horse's lineage. When Harley's soul mate is killed in an accident, Charlene guiltily suspects her own grandmother, a notorious witch, of making it happen - just as she may well have caused the death of Harley's father and brother, which even today obsesses him. The Grass Dancer is a debut novel for Susan Power, an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.

About Susan Power

Susan Power is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe. Her short fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, High Plains Literary Review, and Story. A chapter from The Grass Dancer, her first novel, was selected for The Best American Short Stories 1993.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Zanna on November 06, 2015

What I said in the secrecy of my thoughts was: Fanny, mazaska, the white iron you call money, is useless to me. Even the goods I take from the sutler's store, the flour, coffee, sugar, and tobacco, the knives and blankets, are things I do not want. I give them to my cousins who live upriver.These wo......more

Goodreads review by Zoe on August 19, 2014

I loved this book and could hardly bear to put it down. In fact it is now one of my favourite magic realist books, which is saying a lot (this is the 116th review on this blog). There are some books that you should read in one sitting or as near to one as you can get. This is one such book. Each cha......more

Goodreads review by emily on November 09, 2022

read this for the first time for a class during my last semester of undergrad & have truly thought about it almost every day since. finally picked it back up & officially shelving it as a favorite—these characters are rubbed into my soul, all alive & circular. i am so so so grateful this novel exist......more

Goodreads review by belton :) on April 22, 2024

I haven't been this angry at a book in such a long time. And no this is not a good angry. I was angry because this book annoyed so much out of me and I couldn't quit it because I had to finish it for school. God I'm so glad to be done with this book. Before I rage on this book I'll explain what it's......more

Goodreads review by Mylan Parker on August 29, 2024

The magical realism, the character development, and craft is just amazing. Very bright and intelligent work that fortifies the many experiences, beliefs, and practices of the Dakota people. I loved the theme of seeking identity when feeling in between two worlds, especially with the threat of coloni......more