×
Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date.
For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now.

Members save with free shipping everyday!
See details
See details
15.95
In Stock
Overview
If you fell in love with 1960s North Carolina when reading Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, Donna Everhart’s The Moonshiner’s Daughter will transport you right back. Everhart’s sensitive and expert storytelling will capture you in this Southern coming-of-age novel!
Set in North Carolina in 1960 and brimming with authenticity and grit, The Moonshiner’s Daughter evokes the singular life of sixteen-year-old Jessie Sasser, a young woman determined to escape her family’s past . . .
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.
Set in North Carolina in 1960 and brimming with authenticity and grit, The Moonshiner’s Daughter evokes the singular life of sixteen-year-old Jessie Sasser, a young woman determined to escape her family’s past . . .
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.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781496717023 |
---|---|
Publisher: | Kensington |
Publication date: | 12/31/2019 |
Pages: | 368 |
Sales rank: | 197,225 |
Product dimensions: | 5.60(w) x 8.10(h) x 1.10(d) |
About the Author
Donna Everhart is a USA Today bestselling author who writes stories of family hardship and troubled times in a bygone South. A native of North Carolina, she resides in her home state with her husband and their tiny heart-stealing Yorkshire terrier, Mister. Readers can visit her at www.donnaeverhart.com.
Videos

Customer Reviews
Related Searches
Explore More Items
“A must read!” —Mark Greaney, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author In the thrilling ...
“A must read!” —Mark Greaney, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author In the thrilling
tradition of Red Dawn and The Dirty Dozen, this action-packed page-turner from Lt. Col. Hunter Ripley “Rip” Rawlings IV brings together insider military expertise with ...
From the acclaimed author whose historical fiction has been compared to The Help, comes a ...
From the acclaimed author whose historical fiction has been compared to The Help, comes a
powerful and ultimately uplifting novel that tells the story of three generations of women in 1970s Mississippi after their lives are thrown into upheaval when ...
A half-breed and a white man. For years their legend has grown, but few know ...
A half-breed and a white man. For years their legend has grown, but few know
how far they will go for one another or the roots of their blood bond. Now, that bond will be put to the most deadly ...
Essence® bestselling author Victor McGlothin delivers a stirring novel about a player who's down on ...
Essence® bestselling author Victor McGlothin delivers a stirring novel about a player who's down on
his luck only to receive help from the most unlikely sourcethe very women whose hearts he broke. . .The year is 1947, and Ms. Etta's ...
Katie Beiler was always the follower to her twin sister Hannah’s lead. That is until ...
Katie Beiler was always the follower to her twin sister Hannah’s lead. That is until
Hannah left their Amish upbringing for an English life—leaving Katie to find her own footing in a world that no longer looks as it once ...
In her sweeping debut, Diane C. McPhail offers a powerful, profoundly emotional novel that explores ...
In her sweeping debut, Diane C. McPhail offers a powerful, profoundly emotional novel that explores
a little-known aspect of Civil War history—Southern Abolitionists—and the timeless struggle to do right even amidst bitter conflict. On a Mississippi morning in 1859, ...
Award-winning author Lynne Hugo returns with a life-affirming, poignant novel in the spirit of A ...
Award-winning author Lynne Hugo returns with a life-affirming, poignant novel in the spirit of A
Man Called Ove—a story brimming with both wit and warmth about how a family gets on . . . and goes on. CarolSue and ...
Set against the beautiful backdrop of coastal Maine, bestselling author Holly Chamberlin’s heartwarming novel tells ...
Set against the beautiful backdrop of coastal Maine, bestselling author Holly Chamberlin’s heartwarming novel tells
of friendship, family, lessons learned, and newfound love—all under a summer sky . . . Every June, the quiet beach town of Ogunquit is ...