![]() The writing styles were very different, and I think they will appeal to different people. Other than the theme of polygamy there was nothing to link the two stories as the book is a whopping 606 pages long, I think that it could have benefited from being split in two separate books. He returns to Utah to visit his mother in jail, and begins to uncover many secrets within his polygamous family. Jordan was expelled from the Mormon sect at the age of fourteen, when he was discovered holding hands with one of his step-sisters. Twenty-year-old Jordan discovers that his father has been murdered, and his mother is accused of shooting him. The second is basically a murder mystery. Unsatisfied with his treatment of her, she separates from him, and then leads a crusade to end polygamy in America. The first begins in 1875 and follows Ann Eliza Young, the nineteenth wife of Brigham Young, the second Prophet of the Mormon Church. ![]() ![]() The book is split into two distinctive parts. The 19th Wife is based around a polygamous Mormon sect. ![]()
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