The war unexpectedly gave this independent girl a chance to fulfill her childish dream to work as a waterman alongside her father.
While everyone pampered Caroline, Wheeze (her sister’s name for her) began to learn the ways of the watermen and the secretes of the island, especially of old Captain Wallace, who had mysteriously returned after fifty years. Growing up on a tiny Chesapeake Bay island in the early 1940s, angry Louise reveals how Caroline robbed her of everything: her hopes for schooling, her friends, her mother, even her name. Caroline, her selfish younger sister, was the one everyone Loved. “Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.” With her grandmother’s taunt, Louise know that she, like the biblical Esau, was the despised elder twin.
School Library Journal Best Books of 1980īest of the 80’s YA Novels (English Journal)
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