Cloud Chamber, By Michael Dorris

CLOUD CHAMBER. By Michael Dorris. (Scribner, $24.) A bold novel, tracing five generations of a fictional American family that grows more multicultural with time, suggesting that the ugliness of history can be transcended.

text from: The New York Times, December 7, 1997, Sunday,
Notable Books of the Year 1997.
This list has been selected from books reviewed since the Holiday Books issue of December 1996. It is meant to suggest some of the high points in this year's fiction, poetry, nonfiction, children's books, mysteries and science fiction.