The 19th Wife: A Novel
David Ebershoff
Language: English
Pages: 514
ISBN: 0812974158
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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.
The Secret of the Golden Pavilion (Nancy Drew Mysteries, Book 36)
The Clue in the Crumbling Wall (Nancy Drew Mysteries, Book 22)
A Nose for Murder (Jack and Jamie, Book 1)
Blueberry Muffin Murder (Hannah Swensen Mystery, Book 3)
Disney at Dawn (Kingdom Keepers, Book 2)
girlfriend. When they hauled him in he kept saying to himself, Don’t say anything, don’t say anything. He thought it so hard that those words appeared on the two-way mirror and for the rest of the interrogation he kept looking at those words. In the end, the cops got nothing and they had to let him go. The thing was, the guy actually killed his girlfriend, strangled her with her sweater, and that’s how it ended, the guy being released into the world. “Jordan?” “Yeah.” “Queenie told me you
Sunday Services, following Joseph’s sermon, Brigham rose to bear testimony. He paused, his throat darkening. “Before word of the Restoration came to Brother Joseph,” he began, “and we knew of its Glory, we were destitute and depraved. Now, through His love and wisdom, we know we live in these latter days, these days leading up to Judgment and Redemption. We await them with our hearts full.” Brigham looked to the collected souls cramped in a neighbor’s parlor, some on the floor, many along the
Beecher Stowe, the Wikipedia entry. Although I am the author of these, they are fictional representations of what it’s like to spend time in the archives and online researching Ann Eliza Young, Brigham, and early LDS history. Many are inspired by an actual text or a kind of text. For example, my Howard Greenly interview with Joseph purposely evokes Horace Greeley’s well-known interview with Brigham in 1859; the devotional poem “In Our House” is my limp attempt at the sincere hymns many Pioneers
believed no one could hear. What were they discussing? Was it possible they were speaking of me? In the morning, I rode to Payson. I burst into Mrs. Webb’s house, my old heart thumping in my throat, prepared to make my speech—when she stopped me. My Elizabeth! Her face is always honest and good! She never masks her intentions! Disguises her heart! And yet I had descended upon her with a request that would require she deceive herself. “Did the woman from England arrive?” she said. “Yes! Or I
book and you see the letters but they don’t make any sense? Might as well be Chinese? It was like that. I thought of my mom in her cell. Did she understand any of this better than me? “Jordan, let me give you a little advice. When you find a lead, you’ve got to turn it over and over, again and again, look at it from every angle before you decide what it is. That’s how things work around here. Think of every reason this photo might not help your mom. If it’s still got some value after you’ve done