Title: The 19th Wife Pdf A Novel
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.
Praise for The 19th Wife
“This exquisite tour de force explores the dark roots of polygamy and its modern-day fruit in a renegade cult...Ebershoff (The Danish Girl) brilliantly blends a haunting fictional narrative by Ann Eliza Young, the real-life 19th “rebel” wife of Mormon leader Brigham Young, with the equally compelling contemporary narrative of fictional Jordan Scott, a 20-year-old gay man…With the topic of plural marriage and its shattering impact on women and powerless children in today's headlines, this novel is essential reading for anyone seeking understanding of the subject.”
–Publishers Weekly, Starred and “Pick of the Week”
A complex, yet enjoyable, novel For many years, I've had a fascination with novels, documentaries and biographies of polygamist wives. Why? Not because I want to experience this lifestye; I'm very satisfied in my marriage of monogamy. I'm fascinated because I want to know "what makes these women tick". I wonder: "Why would they subject themselves to a life like this? Why would someone put up with such a primitive, stifling lifestyle? Why wouldn't they want freedom?"This book truly delivered answers to my questions. For many of these women, this is the only life they have known: they were born into it. Not only does it deliver answers, it also delivers a certain amount of mystique... there's been a murder... and I definitely love the mystery of a murder. The narrator of the murder mystery(son of one of the sister wives, accused of murdering her husband) is edgy and truthful. He tells it like it is, whether you like it or not. He's street-wise and connected to both worlds: the world in which he grew up and the "real" world.Little by little, he weaves the profile of his mother: someone who didn't resist what she married into; someone who did as she was told; someone who was obedient, for the gain of her salvation. The narrator methodically pulls apart life in a polygamist family. He describes how the cult gets rid of the young boys, so that the old men can have the girls all to themselves. He also reveals the characteristics of the other sister wives, and their relationships with one another.The narrator knows that evidence of murder may be pointing right at his mother. He wants to help her, but he's not sure how. He doesn't want her to be executed, yet how can he save her?There are two "threads" of story-lines in this novel: the historical and the modern-day. The historical portrays the saga of Brigham Young and his sister wives, especially his 19th wife, who campaigned to end polygamy. Both of these threads are woven in such a way, that many "why's" were answered for me. Both of them drew me in, and held my interest. I wanted to jump into the story-lines of both threads, and rescue the women involved, plead with them to leave the lives they were in, and encourage them that there's a better life outside of their boundaries.I wanted to assure the ones who questioned their lives, to stay strong and leave this cult-life behind. All ran the risk of what would happen if they abandoned their "faith".While this novel was more complex than most that cover this subject, I was both challenged in keeping both story-lines straight and educated about a subject that I find fascinating. I also enjoyed following how the murder mystery was solved. I highly recommend this book.Very engaging I was very interested in the subject of plural marriages and the mysterious Mormon religion. I found much to answer my many questions within this novel. I would've given this book 5 stars but I feel there was a lot of excess verbiage. I found my attention straying through some of the chapters. I continued because my basic interest was still with me but there were times I felt bogged down in too much description. Basically I consider this a fine read and perhaps others with a different type of mind will appreciate the depth of description more than I did.I would recommend it to anyone wanting to know a little more ... This a very interesting and informative book about the Mormons and the early formation of this religion group. I would recommend it to anyone wanting to know a little more about polygamy and how it worked or didn't work and why the Mormon church decided to abandon this practice.
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