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 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. On her quest, Jess, a talented sharp-shooter, lands in the employ of the territory's violent, capricious Governor, whose militia is also hunting Noah-dead or alive. Wrestling with her brother's outlaw identity, and haunted by questions about her own, Jess must outmaneuver those who underestimate her 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, a propulsive quest for salvation and family, and a reckoning with the myths entwined with our history.