Back/Inside Cover:Michael Dorris's contemporary classic novel is 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 int he present day and moving back in time, the novel is told in the voices of three women: fifteen-year-old part-black Rayona, searching for a way to find herself; 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 - and their future.
My Thoughts:
This is a good book for school because you can easily pick up on the themes and symbols in the book. I wouldn't read it outside of school because I found the story to be drawn out and some what pointless, but for school, it's great.
Reccommendations for:
Uh, only to teachers looking for a book that students wouldn't get confused with.
Price, genre, publisher, info:
US $14
CAN $20
Fiction
Picador Distributed by Holtzbrinck Publishers
http://www.picadorusa.com/
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