Whiskey When Were Dry - John Larison
Category: Westerns
Narrator: Sophie Amoss
Tags: Westerns, Violence, Historical Fiction, Adults
Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group Release date: August 21, 2018 Duration: 15:24:56, Named a Best Book by Entertainment Weekly, O Magazine, Goodreads, Southern Living, Outside Magazine, Oprah.com, HelloGiggles, Parade, Fodors Travel, Sioux City Journal, Read it Forward, Medium.com, and NPRs All Things Considered., 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 familys homestead. Desperate to fend off starvation and predatory neighbors, she cuts off her hair, binds her chest, saddles her beloved mare, and sets off across the mountains to find her outlaw brother Noah and bring him home. A talented sharpshooter herself, Jesss quest lands her in the employ of the territorys violent, capricious Governor, whose militia is also hunting Noahdead or alive., Wrestling with her brothers out
