A Yellow Raft in Blue Water

Michael A. Dorris

ISBN 10: 0312421850 / ISBN 13: 9780312421854

Published by Picador, 2003

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Abnutzung / Risse - leicht; Vergilbt / ausgeblichen. Michael Dorris has crafted a fierce saga of three generations of Indian women, beset by hardships and torn by angry secrets, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of kinship. Starting in the present day and moving backward, the novel is told in the voices of the three women: fifteen-year-old part-black Rayona; her American Indian mother, Christine, consumed by tenderness and resentment toward those she loves; and the fierce and mysterious Ida, mother and grandmother whose haunting secrets, betrayals, and dreams echo through the years, braiding together the strands of the shared past.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
• Publisher: Picador
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312421850
• ISBN 13: 9780312421854
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Michael Dorris has crafted a fierce saga of three generations of Native American women, beset by hardships and torn by angry secrets, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of kinship. Starting in the present day and moving backward, the novel is told in the voices of the three women: fifteen-year-old part-Black Rayona; her American Indian mother, Christine, consumed by tenderness and resentment toward those she loves; and the fierce and mysterious Ida, mother and grandmother whose haunting secrets, betrayals, and dreams echo through the years, braiding together the strands of the shared past.

About the Author

Michael Dorris' fiction includes A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, The Cloud Chamber, The Crown of Columbus, coauthored with Louise Erdrich, and the story collection Working Men. Among his nonfiction works are The Broken Cord, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and a collection of essays, Paper Trail.