{"product_id":"prospectors-hardcover","title":"PROSPECTORS (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA sweeping rags-to-riches story about claiming the American Dream, following a family transformed by the Klondike Gold Rush.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Told in glimmering prose and rich with historical detail...you can feel the grit on your hands.\"--Celeste Ng\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Smart, surprising, and epic.\"--Chris Bohjalian\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOne 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBringing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Djanikian, Ariel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52337163501842,"sku":"9780063289734","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0270\/9238\/5846\/files\/14101443482210_66b49cd6-fc7f-4bf2-a43f-09dfc83b23e6.jpg?v=1780434991","url":"https:\/\/hbswarehousesale.com\/products\/prospectors-hardcover","provider":"Harvard Book Store Warehouse Sale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}