num_pages: 384
description: In the 1920s, a clash of cultures when a sophisticated New York bride arrives in a provincial town in West Virginia. The woman's problems multiply when her husband leaves her and she must face the town's hostility, alone with two children. A first novel.
language: English
title: Private Altars
titlecomplete: Private Altars
genres: Fiction, Southern, Contemporary, The United States Of America
ratings_count: 218
publisher: Berkley