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Title: Required Reading in High School
Review: Michael Dorris weaves a tale of how three women have chosen their paths which affects their present and future going back into the past lives of Christina and Ida. The two women have secrets of their own that have affected each of them and how they treat their offspring.I read this book in my senior year of high school thinking that it would be another boring read. Instead, I found myself immersed into the book wondering how each female has led her own life. Rayona doesn't know why she is going back home and Christina doesn't know what she has done to make her mother Ida feel inferior to her. We don't know why Ida dotes on her late son Lee. The reader has to be fully absorbed into the book to understand each woman's story.We can't undue what has happened in our past but we can learn from it to make it a better future.
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