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The Broken Cord

by Michael Dorris

National Book · 1989 · Winner
NonfictionISBN 9780816150182

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About the Author

Michael Dorris (1945-1997) was an American novelist, scholar, and anthropologist best known for his debut novel A Yellow Raft in Blue Water (1987) and the memoir The Broken Cord (1989), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction and raised awareness about fetal alcohol syndrome. Erdrich.

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