The 19th Wife
by David Ebershoff
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A pageturning murder mystery set in a secretive polygamous Mormon sect.Jordan returns from California to Utah to visit his mother in jail. As a teenager he was expelled from his family and religious community, a secretive Mormon offshoot sect. Now his father has been found shot dead in front of his computer, and one of his many wives - Jordan's mother - is accused of the crime.Over a century earlier, Ann Eliza Young, the nineteenth wife of Brigham Young, Prophet and Leader of the Mormon Church, tells the sensational story of how her own parents were drawn into plural marriage, and how she herself battled for her freedom and escaped her powerful husband, to lead a crusade to end polygamy in the United States. Bold, shocking and gripping, The 19th Wife expertly weaves together these two narratives: a pageturning literary mystery and an enthralling epic of love and faith.
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Fiction, Polygamy, Mormons, Mystery fiction, Historical fiction, Literature, Fiction, mystery & detective, historical, Fiction, historical, Utah, fiction, Mormons, fiction, Marriage, fiction, Large type books, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2008-08-31, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, historical, generalPeople
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The 19th wife: a novel
2009, Random House Trade Paperbacks
in English
- Random House Trade Paperback ed.
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The 19th wife: a novel
2008, Random House
in English
- Doubleday large print home library edition.
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The 19th Wife
2008, Random House Publishing Group
Electronic resource
in English
1588367487 9781588367488
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Faith, I tell them, is a mystery, elusive to many, and never easy to explain.Sweeping and lyrical, spellbinding and unforgettable, David Ebershoff's The 19th Wife combines epic historical fiction with a modern murder mystery to create a brilliant novel of literary suspense. 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 a family's polygamous history is revealed, including how a young woman became a plural wife.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 and faith.From the Hardcover edition.
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