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Jacob's Daughter

By Naomi Williams

Fiction
13-Digit ISBN 978-1-891799-80-8
Trade paperback- $16.95
Publication Date: September 2007

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.

PRAISE FOR Jacob's Daughter

“In her heartfelt debut, Williams…turn[s] the book from a Southern coming-of-age story into a poignant, well-crafted life history….Liza’s emergence in the second half adds complexity to the story line…making this a promising first novel by a writer who obviously knows her setting and cares deeply about her characters.”

—Publishers Weekly, October 21, 2002

“Naomi Williams writes with such emotional precision that events explode, hearts tug, and the language of the Low Country meanders magically into some of the most compelling imagery pressed to paper….Rarely has such a compelling heroine cut so honestly to the heart of life.”

—Debbi Jones
Augusta Preparatory Day School, Martinez, Georgia

“[A] rich, engrossing novel of a young girl’s coming of age in the Carolina Low Country of yesteryear. Vividly rendered, beautifully written, Two Rivers makes readers wish for more of Naomi Williams’ prose and story-telling talent.”

—Robert Lamb,
Author of Striking Out and Atlanta Blues

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