Faith I tell them is a mystery elusive to many and never easy to explain.Sweeping and lyrical spellbinding and unforgettable David Ebershoffs The19th Wife combi... » 

Faith I tell them is a mystery elusive to many and never easy to explain.Sweeping and lyrical spellbinding and unforgettable David Ebershoffs The19th Wife combines epic historical fiction with a modern murder mystery tocreate a brilliant novel of literary suspense. It is 1875 and Ann Eliza Younghas recently separated from her powerful husband Brigham Young prophet andleader of the Mormon Church. Expelled and an outcast Ann Eliza embarks on acrusade to end polygamy in the United States. A rich account of a familyspolygamous history is revealed including how a young woman became a pluralwife. Soon after Ann Elizas story begins a second exquisite narrativeunfoldsa tale of murder involving a polygamist family in presentday Utah.Jordan Scott a young man who was thrown out of his fundamentalist sect yearsearlier must reenter the world that cast him aside in order to discover thetruth behind his fathers death. And as Ann Elizas narrative intertwines withthat of Jordans search readers are pulled deeper into the mysteries of loveand faith. From the Hardcover edition. «