Whiskey When We're Dry

by John Larison

Book Overview

Named a Best Book by Entertainment Weekly, O Magazine, Goodreads, Southern Living, Outside Magazine, HelloGiggles, Parade, Fodor's Travel, Sioux City Journal, Read it Forward, Medium.com, and NPR's All Things Considered.

"A thunderclap of originality, here is a fresh voice and fresh take on one of the oldest stories we tell about ourselves as Americans and Westerners. It's riveting in all...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735220441
• ISBN13: 9780735220447
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Viking
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Beautiful, unpredictable, and unique storytelling

I really enjoyed this... I felt completely transported to the time and place in this book... I have read it twice now and continue to buy copies for my friends and family. A must read.

"Give me a mountain and a game trail and I will ride for a thousand years."

A struggle to get my copy of this book. Well worth it. The book follows our heroine Jessilyn Harney, from about age 15 to much later in life. Her mother died, soon after she was born, leaving her with Pa and Noah her 5 year old brother. They have a hard life in a soddy, near a lake. Food is plentiful, always something to shoot. Pa and Noah got in a big fight and Noah left home. Jess and Pa kept the ranch together as best they could, always having to go after the cows in the mountains and thickets. Noah went out west and started robbing trains, making himself well known as a bank robber, an outlaw. Pa died alone in the mountains. Jess found that a family of one, a girl at that couldn't make a go of their ranch. She camouflaged her bits and rode out, thinking she was going to bring Noah home to help. Jesse as she now called herself, ends up with a decent job, working for the Governor and being his number one shootist. No one knew she was a girl. She is working here waiting for the Governor's men to bring back some information on Noah.