The 19th Wife: A Novel Feature
- ISBN13: 9780812974157
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
The 19th Wife: A Novel Overview
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.
Customer Reviews
This book fascinated me from the first page. I am a big fan of historical fiction, and when I need a break from everyday life, this is what we normally get ... something that has historical narrative itself and escape for a few hours. This has that element and the modern history of a young outsider who return home to his adoptive mother, who was arrested for the murder of his father talk. I loved both stories ... by Jordan Scott, the young outsider, and Ann Elizathe young woman who had been trained from birth in the Mormon faith. I love reading the stories of how a group of people the belief developed over the years than to flee from persecution, to form their own city in the desert.
I know nothing of Latter-day Saints, but what was usually shared by the media. I know there is a rift between the Latter-day Saints and other sects, the descendants of Brigham Young and the sense of his views, calling polygamy. It was nota case not long ago in Texas for women "freed from their homes? (The only thing I remember the indignation of infants and children who are separated from their mothers during this period.)
This is a story in two parts of a boy who was thrown out of his small town and home to a slight injury, only to see home to his mother in prison. The story is about Ann Eliza, Brigham Young is one of the wives. The two storiesInsights minds of the people ", the" first ", taking many wives. Ann Eliza shares her story ... I found fascinating, but is a part that worries me enough to ask why it has brought only one of his two sons in his travels? As a mother, that the party does not understand is why he left his son in the same community who are fighting against it, when you left. story of Jordan Scott was interesting because it was told by a Young male perspective onSo he was out (later another child was also launched an outcast, and was met). The mystery of a murder I think I'm intrigued, though I have pictures of it at an early age (and still surprised by the conclusion). The book fascinated me think of the first page to last chapter. The last chapter is not always my interest, like the previous chapters, but still a respectable end to the novel.
This is reading a rather fascinating and I certainlyRecommend him for my book club read. It would certainly be a lot of fodder for conversation.
4/20/10
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