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A Yellow Raft in Blue Water Paperback - 2003

by Michael Dorris

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.


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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.

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I sit on the bed at a crooked angel, one foot on the floor, my hip against the tent of Mom's legs, my elbows on the hospital table.

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  • Title A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
  • Author Michael Dorris
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Picador USA, New York
  • Date 2003-03-05
  • ISBN 9780312421854 / 0312421850
  • Weight 0.67 lbs (0.30 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.28 x 5.47 x 0.67 in (21.03 x 13.89 x 1.70 cm)
  • Reading level 920
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
    • Ethnic Orientation: Native American
    • Geographic Orientation: Montana
    • Religious Orientation: Native American
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Indians of North America
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Michael Dorris's adult fiction includes 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.

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