DAUGHTERS OF JUBILATION

Evalene Deschamps, a Black teenager in the 1950's American South, has a special talent that she's just learning how to control. The women in her family call it “Jubilation,” but it seems more like destruction to Evie: when she has strong emotions, positive or negative, lightning will strike or trees will fall or knives will fly. Evvie learns that if she uses her jubilation for evil, she'll be trapped by her power, but if she learns to control it, she'll lead a (somewhat) normal life.
An article in the newspaper about Evalene saving a white family from a falling tree (that she may or may not have caused to fall) brings a terrible man to town. He makes Evvie's life hell, but she promised her ancestors she wouldn't use jubilation to kill him. In the end Evvie loses her first boyfriend to racial violence but finds her way to a kind of peace through the women - past, current, and the ones she can speak to from the future - in her family tree