{"title":"Ariel Djanikian","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-prospectors-a-novel","title":"The Prospectors: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA sweeping rags-to-riches story about claiming the American Dream, following a family transformed by the Klondike Gold Rush.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Told in glimmering prose and rich with historical detail...you can feel the grit on your hands.”—Celeste Ng\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Smart, surprising, and epic.\"—Chris Bohjalian\u003c\/b\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 saga and quest for wealth that unfolds against the icy Canadian wilderness and the booming oilfields of California.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a compelling dual timeline 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Prospectors\u003c\/i\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","brand":"Ariel Djanikian","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":53497220202787,"sku":"9780063289741","price":15.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/2258\/5123\/files\/9780063289734.jpg?v=1741203139"}],"url":"https:\/\/epicreads.com\/collections\/ariel-djanikian.oembed","provider":"Epic Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}