Michelle Collins Anderson presents THE MOONSHINE WOMEN

Name: Michelle Collins Anderson presents THE MOONSHINE WOMEN
Start: 2026-03-30T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2026-03-30T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Skylark Bookshop

Schedule

Mon Mar 30 2026 at 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Skylark Bookshop | Columbia, MO

We’re delighted to welcome back to the shop a Skylark favorite, Michelle Collins Anderson, who will be discussing her new novel, The Moonshine Women, a richly evocative Prohibition-era novel of three sisters who take over their father’s Ozark Mountains moonshine business in a story of reinvention, sisterhood, revenge, and the alchemy of love.
The book will officially be published the next day, so help us celebrate the launch and get your signed copy a day early!
Every batch of Strong moonshine has its own special flavor, thanks to the secret ingredients that matriarch Lidy Strong adds to the barrels of fermenting corn mash. Whether a bucketful of golden peaches, a ripe melon or juicy, jewel-toned berries, that extra “something something” is what makes the Strong “shine” so prized—and allows the family to survive after crop prices plummeted in the wake of the Great War.
Each of the Strong sisters, too, is distinct. The stoic and steadfast eldest, Rebecca, finds more comfort in nature than with people…until she finds a new home in the love she discovers for the woman who restores her health after a near-devastating accident. Middle sister Elsie is kind, beautiful—and itching for a life more thrilling than the farm can offer. And Jace, the bold and wild-hearted youngest, is known far and wide as “Shine,” a name that suits her fiery personality and flaming red hair as much as her innate skill with a still.
Their father, Hiram, has been drowning himself in grief and liquor ever since his wife died. But the moonshine business is unforgiving, especially with Prohibition agents turning up in every creek and holler. When tragedy strikes, it falls to the Strong women to keep the still running, the family together, and hope burning on the horizon.
From the Ozark mountains edged in oak and pine, to the outlaw paradise of Hot Springs, Arkansas—where gangsters like Al Capone line the bar at the Southern Club—the sisters’ quests for vengeance, healing, and love will drive them forward, in search of a future as transformative and powerful as the purest Strong moonshine.