![]() ![]() And although Bena loves their infant son, Little Ted, she's convinced that something is horribly wrong with him. The town strikes Bena as one big dust storm constantly waiting to happen. The apartment they're renting is depressing. and their new life leaves a good deal to be desired. The year is 1934 the Jonssens have just moved from Rochester, Minn., to Pueblo, Colo. ![]() ''You've always got somebody.'' Bena considers her husband's infidelity the least of her problems. ![]() ''I know you've got somebody,'' Bena tells him casually at one point. Ted Jonssen, the philandering husband in Heidi Julavits's promising but erratic first novel, ''The Mineral Palace,'' and his wife barely seems to mind. And on cable television the other night, I came across that scene in ''The Women'' where Norma Shearer's screen mother explains that when men get bored they can't do something sensible like buying a hat they have to see themselves reflected in a new woman's eyes. One presidential candidate is so desperate to distance himself from the Oval Office adultery scandals that he gave his wife the most showily passionate live-television kiss since Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley's at the 1994 MTV Video Music Awards. An old friend, recently divorced, has learned that her husband was sleeping around for most of the 20-something years they'd been together. MARRIED men who cheat are beginning to get on my nerves. ![]()
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