num_pages: 416
description: 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 beloved mare and sets off across the mountains to find her outlaw brother Noah and bring him home. A talented sharpshooter herself Jess's quest lands her in the employ of the territory's violent capricious Governor whose militia is also hunting Noahdead or alive.Wrestling with her brother's outlaw identity and haunted by questions about her own Jess must outmaneuver those who underestimate her ultimately rising to become a hero in her own right.Told in Jess's wholly original and unforgettable voice Whiskey When We're Dry is a stunning achievement an epic as expansive as America itselfand a reckoning with the myths that are entwined with our history.
language: English
title: Whiskey When We're Dry
publisher: Penguin Books