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"Everyone in this town is related in some manner or another," Reimer tells Bena, who doesn't grasp the implications of this knowledge. While covering the plans of society matron Reimer Lee Jackson to renovate the crumbling Mineral Palace (a failed tourist attraction), Bena comes to know the hard fates of the town's women and children, a point driven home by her observations of a drunken, pregnant prostitute named Maude plying her trade in the alley behind a local tavern.
This decisive move gets Bena out of the house and into Pueblo affairs, which she quickly learns are not all quaint. She finds work as a society reporter with a shoddy local paper, the Chieftain. With Ted avidly pursuing his new job at a clinic in Pueblo, Bena dutifully fills bottles with a breast pump to leave with a baby-sitter and sets out in search of a job. Her husband Ted, a doctor fleeing potential scandal, is plainly distancing himself from her - a fact she accepts as blandly as she does his repeated reassurances that their baby is fine. Following the recent and complicated birth of her own child, Bena broods over his strange lethargy, despite his insatiable appetite. Her mother died of arsenic poisoning shortly after Bena's birth her older brother, Jonas, drowned in a boating accident that nearly claimed her life as well. Set in the small, dust-blasted Colorado town of Pueblo in 1934, the novel follows the trials of Bena Jonssen, a Minnesota transplant with a tragic past, as she follows her new husband, Ted, to find work among the inhabitants of a dismal mining community.įrom the start, the reader knows that Bena's stoic good nature is a defense mechanism.
The Great Depression is fertile ground for storytellers of suffering and endurance, and first-time novelist Heidi Julavits confidently joins their ranks with "The Mineral Palace."
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