Moonshiner's Daughter

Messer, Mary J.

ISBN 10: 0578054205 / ISBN 13: 9780578054209

Published by Doing Well Now Publishers, 2010

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0578054205I4N00

Synopsis:

Moonshiner's Daughter is the early life story of a young girl raised in the some of the most remote, backwoods parts of Haywood County, North Carolina, deep in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains. Her father, an ardent moonshiner when he wasn't in prison, and her mother, often showing mental illness from an earlier brain injury, raised their four children in some of the grimmest circumstances that you will ever read about. Mary Judith Messer eventually escaped her extreme living conditions by going to live with a family as their mother's helper near Washington, DC. She then moved to New York City to live with her older sister who had run away from a forced marriage. The memoir Moonshiner's Daughter is told through the eyes and words of a barely educated child and teenager yet their meaning and descriptions are clear as a mountain stream. She changed the names of most people and places to protect her still living family members. Authors Robert Morgan & Ron Rash give recommendations.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Moonshiner's Daughter
Publisher: Doing Well Now Publishers
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Unknown
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket