A Yellow Raft in Blue Water (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
At a glance:
- Author: Michael Dorris
- First Published: 1987
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: African Americans, Culture, Family or family life, Mothers, Parents and children, Biracial people, Friendship, Native Americans or American Indians, Multiculturalism, Women, Adoption or adopted children, Catholics or Catholic Church, Pacific Northwest, Terminal illness or terminally ill, Rodeos
- Locales: Northwest (U.S.)
The Work
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, Michael Dorris’ first novel, chronicles incidents in the lives of his three women narrators. Readers have embraced the book, finding the story to be a compelling look at mothers and daughters. The novel opens with Rayona, a fifteen-year-old girl who is part Native American and part black. When her mother moves her to Montana to stay with her grandmother on a reservation, Rayona’s mixed heritage makes her the target of prejudiced teens, damaging her already fragile self-esteem.
Eventually Rayona leaves the reservation and...
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