The release date for the English version of 'The 19th Wife' by
David Ebershoff is Aug 2008. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
I tell them that faith is difficult to define, mysterious, and elusive to many.
David Ebershoff's The 19th Wife is a masterful work of literary suspense that blends grand historical fiction with a contemporary murder mystery. It is sweeping and lyrical, captivating and memorable. In 1875, Ann Eliza Young had just parted ways with her influential husband, Mormon Church leader and prophet Brigham Young. Ann Eliza, an outcast and expelled person, starts a campaign to outlaw polygamy in the US. A detailed history of a family's polygamy is provided, along with information on how a young lady was married to many people.
Shortly after Ann Eliza's story opens, another magnificent story—a murder mystery involving a polygamist family in modern-day Utah—begins. Jordan Scott, a young man who was expelled from his fundamentalist group years before, has to reintegrate into the community that rejected him in order to learn the real reason for his father's death.
Readers are drawn further into the enigmas of love and religion as Ann Eliza's story blends with Jordan's quest narrative.