The Moonshiner's Daughter

Name: The Moonshiner's Daughter
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Donna Everhart
ISBN: 9781541434561

Author: Donna Everhart

Narrator: Amy Melissa Bentley

Unabridged: 19 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/31/2019

Categories: Fiction, Family Life, Coming Of Age

Synopsis

Generations of Sassers have made moonshine in the Brushy Mountains of Wilkes County, North Carolina. Their history is recorded in a leather-bound journal that belongs to Jessie Sasser's daddy, but Jessie wants no part of it. As far as she's concerned, moonshine caused her mother's death a dozen years ago.

Her father refuses to speak about her mama, or about the day she died. But Jessie has a gnawing hunger for the truth—one that compels her to seek comfort in food. Yet all her self-destructive behavior seems to do is feed what her school's gruff but compassionate nurse describes as the "monster" inside Jessie.

Resenting her father's insistence that moonshining runs in her veins, Jessie makes a plan to destroy the stills, using their neighbors as scapegoats. Instead, her scheme escalates an old rivalry and reveals long-held grudges. As she endeavors to right wrongs old and new, Jessie's loyalties will bring her to unexpected revelations about her family, her strengths—and a legacy that may provide her with the answers she has been longing for.

About Donna Everhart

Donna Everhart is a USA Today bestselling author known for vividly evoking the complexities of the heart and the gritty fascination of the American South in her acclaimed novels. She is the recipient of the prestigious SELA Outstanding Southeastern Author Award from the Southeastern Library Association, and her novels have been SIBA Okra Picks, Indie Next Picks, and Publishers Marketplace Buzz Books selections. Born and raised in Raleigh, she has stayed close to her hometown for much of her life and now lives just an hour away in Dunn, North Carolina.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Angela M on January 19, 2020

At the beginning of the story, there is a flashback to a startling, dramatic event, one that haunts sixteen year old Jessie Sasser, a troubled girl who doesn’t want to be known as a moonshiner’s daughter. She’s frustrated wanting to know more about her mother, looking for remanants, signs, maybe fin......more

Goodreads review by Paige on September 28, 2019

North Carolina, 1959-61: Jessie Sasser, a teen girl, struggles to feel accepted by her family who runs an illicit moonshining business. For a number of reasons, young Jessie refuses to support her family's occupation moonshining. Unpopular, self-conscious, and motherless, she feels shame about her f......more

Goodreads review by Norma ~ The Sisters on January 08, 2020

Provocative, emotional, & compelling! THE MOONSHINER’S DAUGHTER by DONNA EVERHART is an engaging, fascinating, gritty, heart-wrenching, and soul-stirring southern historical fiction novel that was such a fabulous, compassionate, and heartfelt story. I was immediately sucked into the storyline and it......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer ~ TarHeelReader on January 30, 2020

5 North Carolina stars! ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ Ok, so I happen to LOVE Donna Everhart. We are talking BIG love. She’s a North Carolina author who features North Carolina settings, and her books are filled with warmth and heart. Not only that, while I have loved every book, they only get better and better. Se......more

Goodreads review by Berit☀️✨ on January 30, 2020

Donna Everhart has written a gritty and compelling southern fiction novel. Her clever and descriptive writing really brought this time and place to life. 1960 North Carolina Wilkes County an area known for its moonshine. 16-year-old Jesse has never felt as though she belongs. She does not fit in wit......more