A powerful novel of the secrets women keep and the lies they tell to survive life in a small, nineteenth-century Colorado mining town.The Washington Post - Caroline PrestonDespite its flaws…Prayers for Sale is as bighearted as Hennie herself, who hands out stout winter coats to miners' wives, saying they're hand-me-downs when, in fact, they're brand-new, ordered in secret from the Sears catalogue.