Author Stories Podcast Episode 863 | Donna Everhart Returns With The Moonshiner’s Daughter


Today’s author interview guest is Donna Everhart who returns to the show to talk about her new novel The Moonshiner’s Daughter.

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.

Donna Everhart is a USA Today best selling author of THE EDUCATION OF DIXIE DUPREE, (October 2016) THE ROAD TO BITTERSWEET, (December, 2017) THE FORGIVING KIND. (January 2019) and THE MOONSHINER’S DAUGHTER, coming January 2020.
She writes stories of family hardship and troubled times in a bygone south. A native of North Carolina, she resides in her home state with her husband and their tiny heart stealing Yorkshire terrier, Mister.She is a member of the North Carolina Writers’ Network, and Women’s Fiction Writers Association.

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