distilling, illicit

When her father loses her college tuition money, Lulu works with Mason, a local boy, making and selling moonshine but their growing romance may mean giving up her dream of escaping her small Virginia hometown.

"After the death of her best friend, Lennie takes some of her family's moonshine to a party where the wishes everyone makes before drinking seem to come true.

When her father loses her college tuition money, Lulu works with Mason, a local boy, making and selling moonshine but their growing romance may mean giving up her dream of escaping her small Virginia hometown.

A fact-based novel in which writer Sherwood Anderson arrives in Franklin County, Virginia, in 1934 in search of a story on the area's moonshiners and becomes caught up in the investigating the link between an attack on restaurant owner Forrest Bondurant that left him with his throat slashed, the arrival at the same hospital where Bondurant is recovering of two additional brutalized victims, and a rumored cache of bootlegging money.