The Best Books About California
Briefly

For some much-needed midweek fun, today I'm updating our California Reading List, a collection of great books that are especially adept at illuminating life in the Golden State.
It tells a gold rush story told not from the typical perspective of the 49ers who traveled from east to west, but from the point of view of a young, pregnant woman from Chile searching for her lover, who sailed to California after the discovery of gold.
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