"A Yellow Raft in Blue Water" by Michael Dorris was first published in 1987. This novel is written from the view points of Royana, Christine, and Aunt Ida, the major characters in the novel.These three narrators keep on exchanging viewpoints between different parts of the novel.The story revolves around a young woman Royana, her birth mother, Christine, and Aunt Ida, the adoptive mother of Christine.