A Yellow Raft in Blue Water Lib/E (CD-Audio)

from maryreinert

Three women connected as mothers and daughters but each with tremendous burdens to bear and pass along. Although the stories are not beautiful, the writing in this book is exceptionally beautiful -- simple, direct, vivid, and tender. The author definitely knows how to bring the reader into the sh...

from LaraRose

A beautiful and memorable story. Dorris creates believable voices for these three very different women. At the beginning, I wasn't sure how their stories would tie together, but their connection is revealed by the time you reach the end. However, I thought Rayona's story was a little unfinished; ...

from mirrani

This is a story told through three generations of women from the same family, only instead of beginning with the grandmother, it begins with the granddaughter and works backwards. This may sound like an unusual and unfriendly way to tell the history of a family but it actually helps you to feel t...

from readaholic12

I felt a sense of place, I related to the characters, I marvelled at the construction and the revelations of this story that peeled back its layers like an onion. You read the story from the perspective of the granddaughter, then see the truth through the eyes of her mother, and ultimately the gr...

from laytonwoman3rd

A Yellow Raft in Blue Water brings us the lives of three Indian women, a daughter, a mother and a grandmother, in their respective first person narrative voices. We meet Rayona first; she is fifteen years old, and her life is not easy. She and her mother live in Seattle, but Mom is often "sick" a...