The Mineral Palace

Heidi Julavits
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While poverty and dust storms plague a Colorado mining town during the Depression, doctor's wife Bena Jonssen begins to unravel the sexual corruption lurking under the community's thin veneer of respectability. A first novel. Reprint.
Genres: FictionHistorical FictionNovelsLiterary Fiction
368 Pages

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