During her first interaction with the old man, however, Louise realizes that he is not a spy. When a mysterious stranger arrives on Raff, Louise begins investigating his identity, imagining that he is a war spy and that outing him will bring her the international recognition she craves. But, since she is a girl, she is resigned to her own small skiff, which she works with her best friend, Call. She longs to work on her father’s crab boat with him. Louise and Caroline have a tempestuous relationship, as Louise believes Caroline, who is musically gifted, has been favored since birth. When the novel opens, thirteen-year-old Louise Bradshaw spends her days crabbing on the island of Raff, where she lives her parents and twin sister, Caroline. Jacob Have I Loved, by Katherine Paterson, is the story of thirteen-year-old Louise Bradshaw’s coming of age on the crabbing island of Raff during World War II.
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