19th Wife

David Ebershoff's novel The 19th Wife weaves together two storylines. One is set in 1875, and is about Ana Eliza Young, separated from her powerful husband, Brigham Young, the leader of the Mormon Church. Expelled from the religious sect, she embarks on a crusade to end polygamy in the Unites States. A second narrative unfolds a tale of murder involving a polygamist family in present-day Utah.