A Yellow Raft in Blue Water: A Novel Christopher Denise readers will be inspired by

readers will be inspired by this story of holiday kindness

" he rejoices—he'll want for nothing

She also definitely doesn’t want Theo—her father’s charismatic so-called “protégé”—to witness her struggle

sparking a mystery that will haunt the survivors

in the book’s longest section

A Yellow Raft in Blue Water: A Novel Christopher Denise readers will be inspired byMichael Dorris has crafted a fierce saga of three generations of Native American women, beset by hardships and torn by angry secrets, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of kinship. Starting in the present day and moving backward, the novel is told in the voices of the three women: fifteen year old part Black Rayona; her American Indian mother, Christine, consumed by tenderness and resentment toward those she loves; and the fierce and mysterious Ida,