Our Cup is Broken Author:Florence Crannell Means This is a fast-moving dramatic story concerning Sarah, a young Hopi woman who finds herself trapped between and excluded by the two cultures she was born to when after a nine year stay with a middle-class white family, she returns to her Hopi village. When Sarah is raped by a Hopi boy and bears his illegitimate child, the tragic outlines of her ... more »life seem solidified.
The forces of Sarah's fate are realistic and there are no fairytale endings, but the story is a powerful one to tell, for the understanding it brings regarding these cultures and the cultural separations.