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The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff






The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff

Junior in terms of both age and pecking order, Annie Young didn’t much like the gig she renounced life as a plural wife and broke from the church to publish a book about the horrors of polygamy.

The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff

He juxtaposes the world of modern polygamous families down on the remote Utah-Arizona line with the life of a junior wife of 19th-century Mormon patriarch Brigham Young. Ebershoff ( Pasadena, 2002, etc.) takes a promising historical premise and runs with it-perhaps a couple of dozen pages too long.








The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff