Jacob's Daughter

by Naomi Williams

Naomi Williams returns to the lush setting of the South Carolina Low Country in her second novel, Jacob's Daughter , to introduce Deborah Jernigan. This protagonist is born with an uncanny awareness of a world in which people struggle for love and acceptance. She survives a sickly childhood and many family struggles yet excels in every facet connected to education. After her deeply religious father Jacob sees what he deems is a miracle--an eclipse--Deborah is the first daughter he allows to go to college. She becomes a high school English teacher, resigns to travel in Europe, and then lands a job in Georgia at a community college, all the while realizing her responsibility to help the family with Anna, her mentally unstable mother. Ultimately she is torn between romance and family--but always shadowed by the many lessons she learns as Jacob Jernigan's daughter.

208 pages, Paperback

First published September 10, 2007

Reviews

[Lynne · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read it because the author was my favorite teacher in junior high school. Her grammar was perfect, haha, but the story just did interest me that much.