Won: The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
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(No Ratings Yet) - Loading ...A million of my most heartfelt thanks to The Book Faery Reviews for picking me to win The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff. Being that a goodly portion of my family throughout history had been Mormon, I was really eager to pick this book up and read it. I am sooo happy to have gotten it!
This ambitious third novel tells two parallel stories of polygamy. The first recounts Brigham Young’s expulsion of one of his wives, Ann Eliza, from the Mormon Church; the second is a modern-day murder mystery set in a polygamous compound in Utah. Unfolding through an impressive variety of narrative forms—Wikipedia entries, academic research papers, newspaper opinion pieces—the stories include fascinating historical details. We are told, for instance, of Brigham Young’s ban on dramas that romanticized monogamous love at his community theatre; as one of Young’s followers says, “I ain’t sitting through no play where a man makes such a cussed fuss over one woman.” Ebershoff demonstrates abundant virtuosity, as he convincingly inhabits the voices of both a nineteenth-century Mormon wife and a contemporary gay youth excommunicated from the church, while also managing to say something about the mysterious power of faith.
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