And as Ann Eliza's narrative intertwines with that of Jordan's search, readers are pulled deeper into the mysteries of love and faith. David Ebershoff is the author of four books, including The Danish Girl and the 1 bestseller The 19th Wife.The Danish Girl was adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Academy Award-winners Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander. Jordan Scott, a young man who was thrown out of his fundamentalist sect years earlier, must reenter the world that cast him aside in order to discover the truth behind his father's death. Soon after Ann Eliza's story begins, a second exquisite narrative unfolds-a tale of murder involving a polygamist family in present-day Utah. In a parallel narrative, Ann Eliza Young, the 19th and final wife of Brigham Young, leader of the Mormon Church in the latter. A rich account of a family's polygamous history is revealed, including how a young woman became a plural wife. Expelled and an outcast, Ann Eliza embarks on a crusade to end polygamy in the United States. Ann Eliza Young, the nineteenth wife of Brigham Young, Prophet and Leader of the.

It is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her powerful husband, Brigham Young, prophet and leader of the Mormon Church.

Sweeping and lyrical, spellbinding and unforgettable, David Ebershoff's The 19th Wife combines epic historical fiction with a modern murder mystery to create a brilliant novel of literary suspense. Listen Free to 19th Wife: A Novel audiobook by David Ebershoff with a 30 Day Free Trial Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet and iOS and. In his ambitious, inventive, magnificent novel, Ebershoff applies his talent for sweeping plots, psychological delicacy, and historical evocation to. Faith, I tell them, is a mystery, elusive to many, and never easy to explain.

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