Camilla "Lily" Price has struggled to become a successful artist.  Her past was tainted by cruel prejudice and her father's tragic death.  After her work is accepted into a prestigious art show, Lily recollects the trials she has faced to become accepted for who she is.

You see, Lily's father loved her to pieces, but a horrendous car accident ended his life.  Lily's mother, a singer, tried to make ends meet in Los Angeles, but things were not meant to be.  Lily and her mother, Marion, returned to Millboro, North Carolina, Marion's childhood home.  Lily immediately finds and is confused by the treatment they receive.  At her age, she has never experienced racism, but as Lily's father was white, Lily finds it hard to fit into a world who would prefer to acknowledge that an interracial union ever existed.

THE EYES OF THE FATHER is packed with vivid imagery.  If you like a highly-detailed setting, this is definitely a book to savor.  My issue with the novel came from the sudden switches from past to present--I often had to flip a page back to see just where the transition was and if I'd missed anything.  Another aspect I didn't particularly enjoy was the ratio of narrative to dialogue.  I find dialogue allows me to get into the character's mind a little better, and there is far more narrative than dialogue in THE EYES OF THE FATHER.

The author does an amazing job at capturing young Lily's anger and confusion following her father's death.  She had that aspect nailed.  In the long run, while THE EYES OF THE FATHER is enjoyable, it isn't quite right for my keeper shelf.