A Yellow Raft in Blue Water — Michael Dorris

Starting in the present and moving backward in time, this is the thrice-told tale of the three women...15-year-old part-black Rayona, searching for a way to find herself...her American Indian mother, Christine, consumed by both tenderness and resentment toward the people she loves...and the fierce and mysterious Ida, the mother and grandmother whose haunting secrets, ancient betrayals, and undying dreams echo silently through the years, bonding and braiding together the three strands of their shared past--and their future.