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The 19th Wife: A Novel

Name: The 19th Wife: A Novel
ISBN: 0812974158

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 f

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David Ebershoff (1)

“According to the St. George Register, on a clear night last June, at some time between eleven and half-past, my mom — who isn't anything like this — tiptoed down to the basement of the house I grew up in with a Big Boy .44 Magnum in her hands.”

— David Ebershoff, amazon.com

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