“A compelling, fascinating memoir of a woman, who, like her mother before her, tries to find herself through the eyes of men, but who, unlike her mother, is able to step into her own vision and voice. Gleah Powers captures her life with great verve and wit—Million Dollar Red is a gem.” — Gayle Brandeis, author of The Art of Misdiagnosis: Surviving My Mother's Suicide
“An amazing memoir which recounts in flinty, lucid, riveting prose, the story of an American girl and American history--from desert and mountain country to Manhattan, from bare-bones poverty to flourishing old money wealth, from life- broken failures to international celebrities. Gleah Powers’ story is moving, but never sentimental, absolutely and fearlessly candid, stocked with surprises and some real shocks. Abused, used for her looks, she never stops to feel self-pity, never stops her search for something transcendent.” — James Robison, Whiting Grant winning author of novels and short stories
“Million Dollar Red takes us on a glorious, whirlwind tour of the author's wild life and dazzling mind. The precision of language and of memory will make you weep, and Powers' dry wit cuts through any risk of sentimentality. This book is an indelible portrait of the US in the 60's and 70's in all its gorgeous, shadowy excess, and a testament to the heart-rending talent of Gleah Powers.” — Alistair McCartney, author of The Disintegrations
“Gleah Powers’ new memoir, Million Dollar Red, is a book longing to be read in one big gulp. Million Dollar Red teems with energy and life as our narrator negotiates a childhood cut short by deception and a young adulthood spent searching for a life that is about more than survival. Sensuous details of place move us across the United States as Powers begins to create a life of meaning and learn what the world may hold for her.” — Goodreads reviewer
“Gleah Powers' captivating memoir is a tale of looking for a lost home that never really existed, in people and cities, in poverty and wealth, with unwilling lovers and unloving mothers. Million Dollar Red is her compelling story to self-hood. Anyone who has felt that special kind of homesickness for an idyllic childhood that never existed, who has had to become their own lover and protector and mother, or who knows the sting of clinging too tightly to things that were never meant to be, will find a kindred spirit in Million Dollar Red.” — Katie Mitchell, reviewer “Reviewer’s Bookwatch,” Midwest Book Review
“Million Dollar Red is a compelling story written with great style and technique and just a touch of hard-earned cynicism. Gleah Powers is an excellent writer.” — David Kaye, bookseller, David Kaye Books
“Divorcees, gamblers, celebrities, cultists? We now live in the culture that Gleah Powers so prophetically explored as a young woman in the 1960s, 70s and 80s ...” — F.X. Feeney, critic LA Review of Books, author Orson Welles: Power, Heart & Soul
“Gleah Powers scales the fortress, braves the unknown, and shares the adventure. She sets a heroic example of how to save your own life, one story at a time.” — Jillian Lauren, New York Times bestselling author Some Girls: My Life in a Harem and Everything You Ever Wanted
Edna and Luna
“An appealing story of human resilience and connection with two memorable female protagonists [who] build an uneasy alliance that evolves into family.” — Kirkus Reviews
“A magical odyssey, both internal and external, through the American Southwest.” — Jillian Lauren, NY Times Bestselling Author of Some Girls: My Life in a Harem
“The southwest of Gleah Powers is particularly akin to the deep south of Flannery O'Connor. Her vision is comic, tragic then comic again in wonderfully truthful, unpredictable twists.” — F.X. Feeney, Critic, LA Review of Books, Author, Orson Welles: Power, Heart & Soul
“Powers creates a world you want to stay in, characters you wish you were meeting in your own supermarket, characters you wish were knocking at your door.” — Carol Potter, Author of Some Slow Bees
“…important themes of women supporting each other, challenging one’s assumptions & prejudices, compassion & empathy—of course these are always important messages, but they are so crucial, necessary, right now.” — Chrys Tobey, Author of A Woman is a Woman is a Woman
“Gleah Powers is an angelic writer, telling the vast, wild story of Edna and Luna with startling economy, sharp tenderness, and searing wit. This is an essential book to guide us through these uncertain times.” — Alistair McCartney, Author of The End of the World Book
“Edna and Luna is a wonderfully moving and insightful story about loss, healing, redemption, and friendship that pierces the heart. Gleah Powers has written a beautiful novella.” — Leonard Chang, Author of Triplines
“…brilliantly observed and poignantly funny…” — Marylee MacDonald, author of Bonds of Love and Blood and Montpelier Tomorrow
“Gleah Powers has an uncanny ability to capture the real, the religious, the natural, and the absurd that is the Southwest into prose. Edna and Luna, in the end, is an oasis for the human soul.” — John M. Gist, Founding Editor, Red Savina Review
“Intriguing characters and a very different approach made this, for me, a book I picked up and didn't put down.” — Amazon review
