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Article: AMERICAN FAMILY EMERGES IN "CLOUD CHAMBER".(COMMENTARY)(Review)

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February 23, 1997
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Byline: AUDREY KNOTH

CLOUD CHAMBER

MICHAEL DORRIS

Scribner. 320 pp. $24.

Our nation has traditionally been called a melting pot. In truth, it is a cloth - a whole woven from myriad, and disparate, threads. This notion comes alive in the novel Cloud Chamber, which traces a lineage through five generations. Author Michael Dorris begins his tale in late 19th-century Ireland and finishes it on a Montana Indian reservation in the 1990s. In so doing, he knits the African-American, Native American and Anglo-American experiences into one family.

At the start of Cloud Chamber, strong-willed Rose Mannion falls in love with a man who ...

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