Jacob's Daughter - Tapa blanda

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 of her 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 she is forever shadowed by the many lessons she learns as Jacob Jernigan's daughter.