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HarperTeen
November 1980
On Sale: October 22, 1980
224 pages
ISBN: 0690040784
EAN: 9780690040784
Kindle: B001UFP6K8
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"Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated . . ." With
her grandmother's taunt, Louise knew that she, like the
biblical Esau, was the despised elder twin. Caroline, her
selfish younger sister, was the one everyone
loved. 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. While everyone pampered Caroline,
Wheeze (her sister's name for her) began to learn the ways
of the watermen and the secrets of the island, especially of
old Captain Wallace, who had mysteriously returned after
fifty years. The war unexpectedly gave this independent girl
a chance to fulfill her childish dream to work as a watermen
alongside her father. But the dream did not satisfy the
woman she was becoming. Alone and unsure, Louise began to
fight her way to a place where Caroline could not
reach. Renowned author Katherine Paterson here chooses
a little-known area off the Maryland shore as her setting
for a fresh telling of the ancient story of an elder twin's
lost birthright.
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