Description
THE YEAR IS 1934. Amidst
clouds of dust and with a sense of purpose born of the
Great Depression, Bena Jonsson – young mother and
doctor’s wife – arrives in the desert town of Pueblo,
Colorado, to start a new life. But nothing seems to
thrive in this bleak environment, not her, not her
marriage, not little Ted.
With bad omens stacking up like charms on a bracelet,
Bena finds herself drawn away from ‘polite society’ to
the seamier side of Pueblo – to a run-down saloon,
where she befriends a taciturn rancher, and to the lurid
halls of a rooming house and a pregnant prostitute. As
the two women’s lives converge in ways that shock,
Bena is compelled to return to the symbol of the town’s
former glory – the decaying architecture of the Mineral
Palace. Here she is forced to confront her most
terrifying secret, and struggle with the dark
intersection between love and destruction.
With an impeccable sense of history and impending
doom, THE MINERAL PALACE is a tragic love story and
an indictment of society’s treatment of untameable,
liberated women.
326 pages.
Softcover
In good preloved condition