{"product_id":"the-moonshiners-daughter-a-southern-coming-of-age-saga-of-family-and-loyalty-9781496717023","title":"The Moonshiner's Daughter: A Southern Coming-Of-Age Saga of Family and Loyalty","description":"\u003cb\u003eIf you fell in love with 1960s North Carolina when reading \u003ci\u003eWhere the Crawdads Sing \u003c\/i\u003eby Delia Owens, Donna Everhart's \u003ci\u003eThe Moonshiner's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e will transport you right back. Everhart's sensitive and expert storytelling will capture you in this Southern coming-of-age novel! \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSet in North Carolina in 1960 and brimming with authenticity and grit, \u003c\/i\u003eThe Moonshiner's Daughter\u003ci\u003e evokes the singular life of sixteen-year-old Jessie Sasser, a young woman determined to escape her family's past . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonna Everhart\u003c\/b\u003e is a \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Kensington Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50604109431058,"sku":"9781496717023","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a5383963-3b13-4217-bfe7-b6c3e3c5e8f5.jpg?v=1732254744","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-moonshiners-daughter-a-southern-coming-of-age-saga-of-family-and-loyalty-9781496717023","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}