The Moonshiner's Daughter: A Southern Coming-of-age Saga Of

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Nombre: The Moonshiner's Daughter: A Southern Coming-of-Age Saga of Family and Loyalty (Libro en Inglés)
Marca: Kensington

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If you fell in love with 1960s North Carolina when reading Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, Donna Everharts The Moonshiners Daughter will transport you right back. Everharts 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 Moonshiners Daughter evokes the singular life of sixteen-year-old Jessie Sasser, a young woman determined to escape her familys 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 Sassers daddy, but Jessie wants no part of it. As far as shes concerned, moonshine caused her mothers 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 truthone that compels her to seek comfort in food. Yet all her self-destructive behavior seems to do is feed what her schools gruff but compassionate nurse describes as the monster inside Jessie.

Resenting her fathers 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, Jessies loyalties will bring her to unexpected revelations about her family, her strengthsand a legacy that may provide her with the answers she has been longing for.

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Praise for THE MOONSHINER'S DAUGHTERRousing...movingly explores Jessie's struggle with her eating disorder, viscerally describing her twin desires for nourishment and purging in relation to a deep need to define herself...Everhart's story of self-discovery, rife with colorful characters and a satisfying twist, will thrill readers."- Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW

"This riveting novel set in the 1960s will have readers, especially those who enjoyKaye Gibbons and Anna Jean Mayhew, captivated from the first page."
- Booklist, STARRED REVIEW

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.

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Tiempo de entrega: 15 días
Peso del paquete: 1 kg
Meses de garantía: 1
Garantía: Defectos de fabricación
Condición: Nuevo
ASIN: 1496717023
País de producción: United States
Encuadernado: Pasta blanda
Editorial: Kensington
Titulo del libro: The Moonshiner's Daughter: A Southern Coming-of-Age Saga of Family and Loyalty
Autor: Everhart, Donna
Fecha de publicación: 2019-12-31 00:00:00
Idioma: Inglés
Editor: Kensington
Número de páginas: 368
ISBN-13: 9781496717023
SKU: 9781496717023