Finally! I have finished a book. I wish I could say I really liked it, but for me... it was just OK. Meredith left it for me and she has already posted about it, but I will just do my own re-cap as well. The book has several stories going at once and nearly each chapter moves from one to another. The main character is Ann Eliza Young, Brigham Young's 19th wife. Ann Eliza is a pioneer and crusader to end polygamy in the United States 1875. The book includes a history of her and her family's polygamist life style, as well as her escape from it and her powerful husband. The other narrative unfolds as a murder mystery in present-day Utah centering around a polygamist family. The main man in this story was cast out of his fundamentalist sect but returns to discover the truth behind his father's murder. So I guess this book is part history, part a revelation of the LDS and their polygamist behavior and part love story. I will bring it home and you are free to pass it around. I learned some interesting things about polygamy and was glad to read it, but glad to be done.
(507 pages)
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