Whiskey When We're Dry

✍ Scribed by John Larison

• Book ID: 100601663
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group; Viking
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 258 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: West United States.
• ISBN: 0735220468

✦ Synopsis

Named a Best Book by Entertainment Weekly , O Magazine, Goodreads, Southern Living, HelloGiggles, Parade, Fodor's Travel, Sioux City Journal , Read it Forward, Medium.com, and NPR's All Things Considered.

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"A thunderclap of originality, here is a fresh voice and fresh take on one of the oldest stories we tell about ourselves as Americans and Westerners. It's riveting in all the right ways -- a damn good read that stayed with me long after closing the covers." - Timothy Egan, New York Times bestselling author of The Worst Hard Time
From a blazing new voice in fiction, a gritty and lyrical American epic about a young woman who disguises herself as a boy and heads west
In the spring of 1885, seventeen-year-old Jessilyn Harney finds herself orphaned and alone on her family's homestead. Desperate to fend off starvation and predatory neighbors, she cuts off her hair, binds her chest, saddles her...

✦ Subjects

West United States