British Columbiana: A Millennial in a Gold Rush Town

di Josie Teed (Autore)

Dundurn Group Ltd, 2023

A job as a heritage interpreter at a remote gold rush site propels an insecure and anxious twenty-four-year-old to find what she truly desires from life. "By turns deadpan and wryly candid, Teed has a keen observational eye and a talent for characterization. An excellent debut." - ANDRE FORGET, author of In the City of Pigs Unsure of her next steps after graduation, twenty-something Josie Teed accepts a position at Barkerville, a remote heritage site in British Columbia showcasing the nineteenth-century gold rush. She lives in the adjacent village of Wells, population 250. There is no cell reception and the grocery store is an hour away. Once a thriving gold mining community in the 1930s, Wells has become a haven for white Gen-X artists and flower children, struggling actors-turned-heritage-interpreters, and transient miners. Eager to move on from a master's thesis that left her questioning her passion for history, Josie dives headlong into her new job and life in a small town. Faced with the prospect of remaining long-term, she must decide if she will fight to carve a place for herself in Wells's idiosyncratic community. What follows is the story of a young woman trying to find connection and purpose in the twenty-first century while living in a village seemingly frozen in the past.

• Autore: Josie Teed
• Editore: Dundurn Group Ltd
• Anno: 2023
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 264 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 140 mm
• Peso: 298 gr.
• EAN: 9781459750210

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