Pnin

Nabokov, Vladimir. Pnin. London: Penguin Books, 1997.

A Yellow Raft in a Blue River

I am reading Michael Dorris' book. I really liked it. What I liked so much was Dorris' sensivie understanding of women characters - not romanticising but, almost as if he could feel what they are. The disturbed lives of three generations of women from the Native American community could be read in the novel - the granddaugher Rayona, the mother Christine and the Grandmother Aunt Ida are the characters. It raises questions about the community, gender, problems of alcholism, disturbed families, foster parents etc which, I realized later, Dorris would have faced in his personal life.
Dorris is accused of abuse by his foster child and another child of his was also planning to give a case against him. Louise Aldrich and he shared a legendary writing career, but they separated at some point. Dorris committed suicide later.