With a sense of purpose born of the Great Depression, Bena Jonsson arrives in Colorado. Seizing the chance to return to journalism, she accepts an unpaid position with the local paper where a meeting with a prostitute accused of infanticide triggers a chain of events with unfathomable consequences.
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A magician with language (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY)
A compelling debut by a strong new voice in fiction (ELLE)
A novel of daring imagination (VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENT)
Like many first novelists Heidi Julavits attempts to pack a big punch in her debut, The Mineral Palace. The plot revolves round the fate of Bena Jonsson, a young mother who moves with her doctor-husband and infant son in 1934 to the depression hell-hole (Unfortunately, there is simply far too much happening in this novel and what might have been a compelling tale spills over into melodrama. Bena befriends a cowboy named Red who is, in turn, involved with Maude, a pregnant prostitute who was also his child)
Amidst clouds of dust and with a sense of purpose born of the Great Depression, Bena Jonsson -- young mother, physician's wife -- arrives in the desert town of Pueblo, Colorado, and immediately sets about creating a new life for her family. As the days unfold, however, she is quietly haunted by niggling doubts and an insidious loneliness, so she gratefully seizes the chance to explore her stalled career in journalism and accepts an unpaid position with the local paper. But bad omens begin stacking up like charms on a bracelet, and when Bena meets a prostitute accused of infanticide, her defence of the woman triggers a chain of events with unfathomable consequences.
Written with an impeccable sense of history and full of impending doom, The Mineral Palace is a stylish corruption of the Medea myth -- a tragic love story and an indictment of society's treatment of untameable, liberated women.
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