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To distract herself from worrying, Bena accepts a position at Pueblo's daily newspaper, the Chieftain, reporting on the town's elite club women and their "good works"-women such as Reimer Lee Jackson, with her plans to restore the town's crumbling monument to the mining industry, the Mineral Palace, to its former grandeur. Bena is drawn to the Mineral Palace and to more of the seamy side of Pueblo-the lurid hallways of a brothel, where she encounters a prostitute, Maude, and Red, a brooding cowboy. Through these emotional entanglements, Bena exposes not only the sexual corruption on which an entire town is founded but also the lies enclosing her own marriage and the sanctity of motherhood. She returns again and again to the Mineral Palace; finally, within its eroding walls, she is forced to confront her most terrifying secret, which becomes her only means for salvation.

With gritty and magical prose, Heidi Julavits conveys the darker sides of wealth and status, and the intersection of parental love and merciful destruction. The Mineral Palace is a startling and authentic story of survival in a world of aridity and decadence.

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In the drought-ridden spring of 1934, Bena Jonnsen, her husband Ted, and their newborn baby relocate from their home in Minnesota to Pueblo, a Western plains town plagued by suffocating dust storms and equally suffocating social structures. Little can thrive in this bleak environment, neither Bena and Ted's marriage nor the baby, whom Bena believes - despite her husband's constant assurances - is slipping away from her.

To distract herself from worrying, Bena accepts a part-time position at Pueblo's daily newspaper, The Chieftain, reporting on the "good works' of the town's elite Ladies' Club leaders, women such as Reimer Lee Jackson and her plans to restore the town's crumbling monument tot he mining industry - the Mineral Palace - to its turn-of-the-century grandeur. Bena is drawn to the Mineral Palace and to the lurid hallways of Pueblo's brothel, befriending a prostitute, Maude, and Red, a reticent cowpoke. Through these new emotional entanglements, Bena slowly exposes not only the sexual corruption on which the entire town is founded, but also the lies enclosing her own marriage and the sanctity of motherhood. She returns again and again to the decaying architecture of the Mineral Palace; within its eroding walls she is forced to confront her most terrifying secret, which becomes her only means for salvation.

With her gritty and magical prose, Heidi Julavits elegantly examines the darker side of paternity and maternity, as well as the intersection of parental love and merciful destruction. The Mineral Palace is a startling and authentic story of survival in a world of decadence and depravity.]]> 2000 0 0 false Fri Nov 20 16:12:41 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 16:12:41 -0800 2009 77672633 1255315 279061 0425179826 9780425179826 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173375857m/279061.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173375857s/279061.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/279061.The_Mineral_Palace 3.10 105 2000 1 0 false Fri Nov 13 12:54:41 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 12:54:41 -0800 2009 74489049 2205083 279061 0425179826 9780425179826 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173375857m/279061.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173375857s/279061.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/279061.The_Mineral_Palace 3.10 105 2000 1 0 false Wed Oct 14 06:28:25 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 06:28:25 -0700 2009 73130268 34388 279061 0425179826 9780425179826 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173375857m/279061.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173375857s/279061.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/279061.The_Mineral_Palace 3.10 105 2000 0 0 false Thu Oct 01 14:33:29 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 14:33:29 -0700 2009 72167104 2748343 279061 0425179826 9780425179826 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173375857m/279061.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173375857s/279061.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/279061.The_Mineral_Palace 3.10 105 2000 0 0 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Tue Sep 22 16:58:29 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 16:58:37 -0700 2009 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=279061