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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.