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Whiskey When We're Dry

By John Larison

Publisher: Viking
Pages: 400
Tags: Fiction

Mulan meets Deadwood in a Wild West novel narrated by its straight-shooting heroine, a newly orphaned 17-year-old whose only remaining relative is her brother, a notorious outlaw.

— Michelle Hart

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