BeckyLyn’s husband has been shot dead in his basement den and she, his nineteenth wife, has been arrested for murder. In the present day, we meet BeckyLyn Scott, a member of a breakaway fundamentalist sect which preserves the practice of polygamy. Her lectures and writings, represented here by a fictional autobiography, helped to expose the reality of plural marriage and, ultimately, to abolish it in mainstream Mormon faith. One is Ann Eliza Young, the apostate former (nineteenth) wife of the early Mormon leader Brigham Young. It’s Ebershoff’s third novel and focuses on the practice of polygamy in the Mormon church by interweaving the stories of two women, separated by more than a century. I first read this book several years ago, before I started this blog, and although I remember enjoying it immensely, I couldn’t remember the details.
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