The Prospectors: An Epic Historical Fiction Novel Exploring Generational Wealth and Moral Conflict

ISBN: 0063289741

Author: Djanikian, Ariel

Condition: New

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 BohjalianThe 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 saga and quest for wealth that unfolds against the icy Canadian wilderness and the booming oilfields of California.In a compelling dual timeline 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 historical fiction 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.