The 19th wife
By: David Ebershoff
Publisher: Black Swan; Random House
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 605
ISBN-13: 9780552774987
Subjects: Mormons; Polygamy; Fathers; Death; Fiction
Other titles: Nineteenth wife
Description: 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.
Notes: Originally published: New York: Random House; London: Doubleday, 2008.