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Alice seeks a way out of poverty during the gold rush. Her family farms but has just enough to live on. Then her older sister Ethel’s husband finds gold in the Yukon. Alice joins the crowds bound for the snow of the Klondike. This family saga tracks her quest for wealth and its cost.

New gold seekers flock to Alaska. Indigenous people work as porters and cooks. Alice is smart and driven but unhappy with her life. She will do anything to avoid being poor again. She may even pay that price with someone else’s life.

A hundred years later, her great-great-granddaughter takes the same route. She hopes to seek justice for a gold-rush tragedy. She also hopes to make amends for it.

Ариэль Джаникян draws on the true story of her own ancestors. Their lives help her explore the wider history of America. The novel weighs kindness against cruelty. It weighs power against greed, too. It also looks at love, forgiveness, choice, and justice.