The 19th Wife: A Novel
It is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her powerful husband, Brigham Young, prophet and leader of the Mormon Church. Expelled and an outcast, Ann Eliza embarks on a crusade to end polygamy in the United States. A rich account of her family’s polygamous history is revealed, including how both she and her mother became plural wives. Yet soon after Ann Eliza’s story begins, a second exquisite narrative unfolds–a tale of murder involving a polygamist family in present-day Utah. Jordan Scott, a young man who was thrown out of his fundamentalist sect years earlier, must reenter the world that cast him aside in order to discover the truth behind his father’s death. And as Ann Eliza’s narrative intertwines with that of Jordan’s search, readers are pulled deeper into the mysteries of love, family, and faith.
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Community Reviews
Although the author clearly states that this is a work of fiction, the fact that he kept on using non-fictional materials as whole chapters, made it difficult to really understand what was true and what was fiction. Having said that, it provides an interesting insight into polygamy and the Mormon sect, and reinforced my opinion that no matter the religion, and no matter what that religion says, all people living in a same country have the same rights.