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A sweeping rags-to-riches story about claiming the American Dream, following a family transformed by the Klondike Gold Rush.
Told in glimmering prose and rich with historical detailyou can feel the grit on your Ng
Smart, surprising, and Bohjalian
The middle daughter of struggling California fruit farmers, Alice Bush is accustomed to feeling inferior and destitute. But when her elder sisters husband strikes a vein of gold in the Yukon Territory, Alice joins a wave of white settlers making the dangerous trek to the Klondike, thus beginning a generations-long family quest for wealth that unfolds against the icy Canadian wilderness and the booming oilfields of California.
One hundred years later, in 2015, Alices great-great-granddaughter Anna must grapple with moral conflict and questions of justice as she travels to the Klondike to bequeath her would-be inheritance to the First Nations peoples who paid the price for its creation.
Bringing the Klondike and turn-of-the-century California to vivid life, Ariel Djanikian weaves an ambitious narrative of claiming the American Dream and its rippling effects across generations. Sweeping and awe-inspiring, The Prospectors is an unforgettable story of family loyalties that interrogates the often-overlooked hostilities and inequities born during the Gold Rush era.
Author: Ariel Djanikian
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 10/08/2024
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.33w x 0.92d
ISBN: 9780063289741
Language: English
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