British Columbiana : a millennial in a gold rush town

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 PigsUnsure 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.