Grass Dancer Hardcover - 1994
by Susan Power
From the lore of her people, the Sioux, Power has forged a consummate work of the imagination. Set on a North Dakota reservation, this story spins a myriad of folk motifs into the fabric of reality, giving readers a narrative about the connection among generations, how the actions of ancestors can affect a contemporary life.
From the rear cover
Back in the 1860s, Ghost Horse, a handsome young heyo'ka, or sacred clown, loved and lost the beautiful warrior woman Red Dress. Since then, their spirits have sought desperately to be reunited, and it is the ceaseless playing out of this drama that shapes the sometimes violent fate of those who have come after them. Now, in the 1980s, Charlene Thunder, a teenage descendant of Red Dress, is in love with Harley Wind Soldier, the dashing traditional dancer of Ghost Horse's lineage. When Harley's redheaded soul mate, Pumpkin, dies in a crash, Charlene guiltily suspects her own grandmother, the notorious witch Anna Thunder, of causing it - as she well may have caused the collision that claimed Harley's father and brother, which even today obsesses him. Charlene and Harley each strive in solitude to make peace with the ghosts of the old ways, while they contend with the living: Jeannette McVay, an eastern college student who has been studying the tribe; Crystal Thunder, who must escape the reservation in order to understand her past; Herod Small War, whose spiritual guidance is both revered and resented; Margaret Many Wounds, Harley's grandmother, who walks on the moon.
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- Title Grass Dancer
- Author Susan Power
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 300
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Putnam Adult, New York
- Date 1994-08-03
- ISBN 9780399139116 / 0399139117
- Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 6.26 x 9.32 x 1.19 in (15.90 x 23.67 x 3.02 cm)
- Reading level 890
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Plains
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Geographic Orientation: North Dakota
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Indians of North America - North Dakota -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93047199
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- ALA Best Books Young Adults, 04/01/1995, Page 1403
- Booklist, 08/01/1994, Page 2024
- Booklist Ed Choice Adu Bk YA's, 01/15/1995, Page 859
- Kirkus Reviews, 06/01/1994, Page 730
- Library Journal, 11/15/1994, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 06/06/1994, Page 56
- School Library Journal, 05/01/1995, Page 136
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