A Yellow Raft in Blue Water | Aunt Ida George
Ida calls herself "a woman who's lived fifty-seven years and worn resentment like a medicine charm for forty... If I were to live my life differently, I would start with the word No: first to him, my father; to Clara, then to Willard, before they left me; to Lee, to save his life, I was different with Christine, but it turned out no better." In her stubborn isolation, Ida distorts the truth that in the end it was she who rejected Clara and Willard Pretty Dog, not vice-versa. Yet Ida alone knows all the secrets that bind the main characters in the story.
Ida is Christine's...
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