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The Prospectors
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ISBN13: 9780063289734
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: Oct 3 2023
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.06
Height: 1.08 Width: 6.36 Depth: 9.26
Language: English
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 detail...you can feel the grit on your hands.--Celeste Ng
Smart, surprising, and epic.--Chris Bohjalian
The middle daughter of struggling California fruit farmers, Alice Bush is accustomed to feeling inferior and destitute. But when her elder sister's 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, Alice's 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.
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