A Yellow Raft in Blue Water: A Novel

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Summary: The hardships of three generation Native Americans.
Review: This book is an outstanding way to learn about the lifes of Native Americans. It's told in three different perspectives and three generations. It faces the hardships and struggles that they each face, each from their own point of view. This book is definitely one of the best books I have read. Learning about their life from three different people was a great way to fully understand what was happening throughout the book and how each one viewed their lives as a person. It was a brisk and easy read and I couldn't put it down. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who is interested in learning about the culture of Native Americans and how they view American society.

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Summary: A satisfied reader
Review: This novel is a tale of three women, Ida, a mother and grandmother, Christine, a mother, and Rayona, her daughter. They spin their tales of each other's lives together in the American Indian oral tradition. The three perspectives blend to complete a story of trial, conflict and personal discovery. The book also gives an insite into how life on a reservation effects the three women and how it brings them together as well as pushes them apart. The author also did a nice job using words diligently to procuce images in the reader's mind. Such as. . . "They were the windows of a faraway city. They were the points of siver nails pressing through tar paper. They were a field of glowbugs motionless in time." Overall I felt it was an enjoyable reading experience. I really became interested in the character's lives.

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Summary: A story told from the viewpoint of three generations
Review: This is a page-turner! The story-line is fascinating. The characters are real. Reading the opinions of others, it appears that those who had it assigned for an English class found it to be boring....believe me, had they chosen to read it on their own, they would have liked it. It seems that any assigned book is automatically a boring book. If English teachers assigned Lady Chatterly's Lover, the students would find it boring. This novel is interesting and informative.

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Summary: very boring!!!!!
Review: I had to read this book for my english calss and hated it. The book has way to many symbolic meanings. If it wasn't for that maybe it would be a decent book.

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Summary: None too fun...
Review: Apparently, I'm not the only person who was forced to read this for an English class. It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't all that great, either. It would have been much better if it had ended after the second section--you had a decent enough sense of closure there. But no, it has to go into this utterly irrelevant and pointless third part. Not a great read, I feel. Sorry, Mr. McD.

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Summary: This book takes you into the lives of three generations.
Review: Starting with the grandchild and ending with the grandmother, you see each person's point of view and how they feel about things. With each different generation, exciting secrets are revealed. This book demonstrates that you can't judge people by first imporessions. As you are lead into the lives of the women, their feelings are revealed and you are able to sympathize with each one as you go along. This book is not like a fairy tale, but it shows life how it really is. This book is not the best book I have ever read, but it makes you think about your own life and how you are affected by the past.

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Summary: The most interesting way of writing I have ever seen.
Review: Instead of telling the tale from the oldest to youngest, Micheal Dorris writes it the other way around. After you start the book you wont be able to put it down. He takes you through the minds of a grandma, daughter, and granddaughter. He leaves you waiting in suspence until the last page.

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Summary: I loved this book!
Review: This book was one of the most interesting I have read. I found the telling of it backwards (so to speak) was both refreshing and enthralling. It made the story more suspensfull, and I just couldn't put it down. And the surprise ending is great!

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Summary: I think this book was overdramatized.
Review: I had to read this book for my english class and i hated it. It was incredibly boring. It did not have any relavent content in the first 100 pages and everything else after that was just extremely unrealistic.

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Summary: It was about what?
Review: Where do I start with this book, first off the authour has some serious issues in regard to the relationships between children and those they should be able to trust. It is too much of a coinsidence that Michael Dorris had alegations poised against him of the same nature. Second the book goes no where it brought up all kinds of questions during the entire book that were never answered. This is a disfunctional family portrayed by a disfunctional authour. If there was zero stars I would give it that, I feel upset that I had to pay to read it.