The Chili Queen
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: September 10, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780312320263
Subjects: American Historical Fiction; Fiction; Fiction - Historical; Historical - General; Suspense; Fiction / General; Reading Group Guide
First sentence: As the train pulled into the shabby station at Palestine, Kansas, the pinch-faced farmers and their wives in their rusty black-wool best lined up along the tracks like the teeth of a rake.