The Moonshiner’s Daughter
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I read “The Moonshiner’s Daughter” over the weekend. It’s a great book—a coming-of-age story from the sixties.
It reminded me of “Where the Crawdads Sing.”
The Moonshiner’s Daughter Summary:
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.
This self-destructive behavior is what her school’s nurse calls the “monster” inside Jessie. And what today would be called anorexia or bulimia.
As she endeavors to right old and new wrongs, Jessie’s loyalties will lead her to unexpected revelations about her family, her strengths, and a legacy that may provide the answers she has been longing for.
Set in North Carolina in 1960, The Moonshiner’s Daughter is about a 16-year-old girl who wants to escape her family’s past, which stretches back generations.
Jessie wants no part of the money that comes from selling moonshine. She believes moonshine caused her mother’s death many years ago.
Amazon Prime Reading:
I read this book through Amazon Prime Reading.
This is like a private library that lets Prime members read books for free. And it’s where I get most of my books these days.
Prime Reading includes more than 2,500 books and magazines. It is one of the Prime benefits you can share in your household.
How To Begin Reading
You get started by logging into your Amazon account. Then go to www.amazon.com/prime, read to begin browsing the titles currently available in Prime Reading.
When you find a book, comic, or magazine that looks tempting, click “Read for Free,” and the item will be available for download. Or click “Read and Listen for Free” for titles with Audible companions.
You can continue choosing new books and magazines until you have downloaded 10 titles. If you want more titles, you will be prompted to return one title before downloading another.
First Reads
First Reads is another benefit that allows Prime members to download one free book each month from a selection of six editors’ picks.
This is one of many reasons to sign up for Amazon Prime.
I saw the book when I was spending the weekend in Maggie Valley N.C. The moonshiners daughter,I have been planning on reading it,so I just added it to my scribd where I read or listen to books,will start reading it tomorrow, I loved where the crawdads sing.
Brenda, I had no idea about this book service, and I’ve been a Prime member for years. Thanks for the heads-up. The Moonshiner’s Daughter sounds like a book I’d enjoy.
Is this like Kindle Unlimited? I do pay for that but there are so many books to read on it it’s kept me busy reading for years.
Thank you so much for explaining how it works. I have Prime but have never taken advantage of it. Are you reading on your Kindle?
I just finished reading “ Anxious People” by Fredrick Backman. He’s a very introspective and sensitive author. I loved this book about a single mother who is struggling to afford an apartment so that she can share custody of her two daughters. But the book is much more complicated than just that… which would be enough… but Backman additionally delves into the lives of characters that the mother meets up with as she works to be independent of her ex husband. It’s a great book with so many sentences where you just stop stare off into space and think.
Thanks for this info, Brenda. I have Prime and I wasn’t aware of it.
Brenda, I knew about first reads but I didn’t know about access to the rest of the books. Thank you!
I didn’t know this. Thanks for
explaining it.