New Releases by Michael Dorris

Working Men features fourteen stories in as many different voices: of men and women, young and old, blue collar and middle class, salesmen and craftsmen, vets and draft dodgers. They are the voices of Native Americans, New England Yankees, southern gentlewomen, by turns serious and comic, gay and straight, playful and sad. Masterfully spun and compellingly crafted, these stories comprise a diverse gallery of characters, written with an almost magical ability to bring each one achingly, vividly, truthfully to life.

Starting in the present and moving backward in time, this tells the story of three women Rayona, her American Indian mother, Christine, and Ida the grandmother.

When ten-year-old Rayona''s Native American mother enters a treatment facility, her estranged father, a Black man, finally introduces her to his side of the family, who are not at all what she expected.

Morning Girl, who loves the day, and her younger brother Star Boy, who loves the night, take turns describing their life on an island in pre-Columbian America; in Morning Girl''s last narrative, she witnesses the arrival of the first Europeans to her world.

Tells the story of Rose Mannion, an Irish woman transplanted in western Kentucky, showing how her legacy of love and betrayal affected succeeding generations of her family.

A Native American boy with a special gift to see beyond his poor eyesight journeys with an old warrior to a land of mystery and beauty.

Moss and Trouble, an Algonquin boy and girl, struggle with the problems of growing up in the Massachusetts area during the time of the first Thanksgiving.

A winner of the Scott O''Dell Award for Historical Fiction, this story re-creates the lives of Atba and Noche, two Taino children who live on a Caribbean island in pre-Columbus times.

Being of mixed blood and having lived in both white and Indian worlds, they give an original perspective on American society. Sometimes with humor and always with refreshing candor, their discussions undermine the damaging stereotypes of American Indians. Some of the interviews focus on their nonfiction book The Broken Cord, which recounts the struggle to solve their adopted son''s health problems from fetal alcohol syndrome. Included also are two recent interviews published here for the first time.

The bestselling author of The Broken Cord and Yellow Raft in Blue Water presents an engaging and masterful collection of essays that offers readers the opportunity to spend time with one of the most engaging minds of the contemporary literary scene. "Highly recommended".--Library Journal.

The prize-winning author of The Broken Cord and A Yellow Raft in Blue Water draws upon this powerful, poignant, and very personal examination of his reaction to the country''s overwhelming poverty.

The controversial national bestseller that received unprecedented media attention, sparked the nation''s interest in the plight of children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, and touched a nerve in all of us. Winner of the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award.

A collection of photographs that portray American Indians and Eskimos as they live today.

The papers of Michael Dorris, author and professor, contain drafts and galleys of The broken cord, A yellow raft in blue water, and The crown of Columbus. They also contain materials related to fetal alcohol syndrome and correspondence related to his books and to the television adaptation of The broken cord. Additionally, the papers include letters to Dorris'' mother and aunt Marion, notes, and papers concerning his teaching career at Dartmouth College.

Follows three generations of Indian women beset by hardships and torn by angry secrets, yet inextricably bound together by the indissoluble bonds of kinship.