Whiskey Before Breakfast
Mar 5, 2011
Author: Benjy Griffith
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Publication Date: 2009
ISBN: 978-0-881-46123-7
Set in Middle Georgia during the Depression, this is the story of 2 boys, one drunk man and an abusive father. Together this group is working to find a way to survive during the hard times and the way they come up with is moonshine.
Newt is told by his father that he and Jefferson - who works for whiskey - will venture into another moonshiner's territory and work to sell their liquor there. Not a safe area to send your son and a drunk into.
While attempting to keep himself safe, bring his father the money he demands and get a drunk Jefferson out of situations, Newt is also trying to protect and comfort his mentally handicapped younger brother - who his father has little to no use for and recommends he be shipped off somewhere.
Newt has a lot of responsibility on his young shoulders. That responsibility only grows when his father is accused of murdering a deputy sheriff and Newt has to decide whether to tell all he knows about his father, or find a way to continue protecting his mother and brother.
A very good story about a boy who's too young to have to be dealing with what's handed to him in life, but does it anyway.
