If you have ever been through so much anger on such a tiny Chesapeake island, like Sara Louise Bradshaw, then you should think again. The setting of this story is very important to the plot of the book: Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson.
Since the age of 10, Louise dreamed of being a waterman, helping her father fish for crabs in the bay, which she loved to do. She could not do this as a career because women were known to cook and clean, and men would crab. That work, she was paid with money that she used to take care of her hands, or save it up for college. …
