The Eyes of the Father is a compelling story of people controlled by the past. This is a love story with epic dimensions in which opposites are persistent factors: black vs. white, tradition vs. progress, slavery vs. freedom, people vs. art, life on earth vs. life hereafter. And as in real life, human strength and frailty interact with fate to produce a mixture of sadness and joy in which one person’s tragedy sometimes results in victory for another. The Eyes of the Father is Daniels’ first novel since publishing her best-selling Guggenheim Fellowship-winning novel Caleb, My Son in 1956 followed by High on a Hill in 1961.
