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Original Title:	A Yellow Raft in Blue Water: A Novel
ISBN:	0312421850 (ISBN13: 9780312421854)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Montana(United States)

A Yellow Raft in Blue Water

Michael Dorris

Paperback | Pages: 372 pages

Rating: 3.86 | 16711 Users | 956 Reviews

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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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Title	:	A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Author	:	Michael Dorris
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 372 pages
Published	:	March 5th 2003 by Picador USA (first published January 1st 1987)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Academic. School. Literary Fiction

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Ratings: 3.86 From 16711 Users | 956 Reviews

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Interesting character studies, this is the story of three generations of Native American women. We learn about their culture, poverty, and isolation. Two of the three characters are difficult to like, but the reader comes to understand, if not agree with the choices they make. Three and a half stars

"You know, it's strange, you live in a place half your life and yet the sight of it from an unfamiliar angle can still surprise you, it was as though I had never before seen that building, so small and hollowed out against the treeless land."This quote can be true about a home or a place often visited that we may cherish, or perhaps even abhor, when brought forth from our memories. I also think the same can be true about a person, or persons, that we find ourselves inextricably linked to in our

At first the tale seems straighforward. A teenage girl has an irresponsible mother who abandons her to a cold-hearted grandmother who doesn't want her either. Life on a remote and poverty stricken Indian reservation in Montana has never been easy, especially for a teenager who is half African American. Almost nothing in this absorbing tale is as it first appears. Everyone is holding secrets. Slowly, ever so slowly, events take on new meaning and the characters gain our compassion. The three

I taught this novel to high school juniors for many years. One year I had a young man in my class who did not like reading, but agreed to read the first few pages, which got him hooked. He could relate to Rayona and her anger with her mother who drank and partied hard. The student brought the book to me and said, "I can't read the next section because Christine [the narrator of the middle section and Rayona's mother] is too much like my mother." I begged him to read 15 pages and then he could

This book has characters that touch your heart and stay with you. I finished this several days ago and still and putting together new ideas and interpretations over the story.It really highlights the frailty of humanity as well as the deep, abiding damage that can come from secrets; even well intentioned secrets.the characters live in a world if missed communications which have disastrous long term consequences. the end of the story has a bright, shining candle of hope but it is not certain and

I've had this book for almost a year waiting to use it for whatever reading challenge I was working on, but I haven't been able to squeeze it in anywhere. So I finally just read it. This was a sad little story, but I absolutely loved the descriptive strokes. I think the author nailed human nature in vivid way. The 3 MCs were 3 generations of Native American women. I enjoyed each of their sad little stories and they felt well told. However, I'm not sure I liked the format. Each of the 3 POVs were

What I loved about this book was that it was broken up into three sections, each one of them about a different character, a girl, her mother, and grandmother. Every time the point of view changed you felt differently about the caracter. Plus the dialogue was great, we could all learn something from this author.