num_pages: 368
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Mineral Palace
titlecomplete: The Mineral Palace
genres: Novels, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 424
places: Pueblo, Colorado
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award
publisher: Berkley Trade