{"product_id":"the-prospectors-9780063289741","title":"The Prospectors","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA sweeping rags-to-riches story about claiming the American Dream, following a family transformed by the Klondike Gold Rush.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Told in glimmering prose and rich with historical detail...you can feel the grit on your hands.\"--Celeste Ng\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Smart, surprising, and epic.\"--Chris Bohjalian\u003c\/strong\u003e\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, \u003cem\u003eThe Prospectors\u003c\/em\u003e is an unforgettable story of family loyalties that interrogates the often-overlooked hostilities and inequities born during the Gold Rush era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDjanikian, Ariel:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAriel Djanikian\u003c\/strong\u003e holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan and is also the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Office of Mercy\u003c\/em\u003e. Her work has been published in \u003cem\u003eTin House\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere. She has received a Fulbright and a Hopwood, among other awards. She teaches at Georgetown University and lives near Washington, DC, with her family.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50892009636114,"sku":"9780063289741","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f5646d9c-2764-4596-9679-b9c07eb41bd8.jpg?v=1753185785","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-prospectors-9780063289741","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}