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.From the Hardcover edition. 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. Expelled and an outcast, Ann Eliza embarks on a crusade to end polygamy in the United States. Publication date 2009 Topics Young, Ann Eliza, - b. Over a century earlier, Ann Eliza Young, the 19th wife of prophet & leader of the Mormon Church, tells her story. The 19th wife Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Now his father has been shot dead & one of his wives is accused of the crime. As a teenager he was expelled from his family & community, a secretive Mormon offshoot sect.

It is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her powerful husband, Brigham Young, prophet and leader of the Mormon Church. Jordan returns to visit his mother in jail. Inspired by the life of Ann Eliza Young, 1 the novel intertwines a historical narrative with a modern-day murder mystery. Faith, I tell them, is a mystery, elusive to many, and never easy to explain.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. The 19th Wife is a 2008 novel by David Ebershoff.

The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff