The 19th Wife: A Novel

by David Ebershoff

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Series (with order)

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Original publication date

2008-08-05 [2008]

People/Characters

Important places

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Mesadale, Utah, USA

Kirtland, Ohio, USA

Haun's Mill, Missouri, USA

Nauvoo, Illinois, USA

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Related movies

Awards and honors

Galaxy British Book Award (2009, shortlist)

Epigraph

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. - Saint Augustine

Like all the other arts, the Science of Deduction and Analysis is one which can only be acquired by long and patient study, nor is life long enough to allow any mortal to attain the highest possible perfection in it. - Arthur Conan Doyle

And now, if there are faults they are the mistakes of men. - The Book of Mormons, translated by Joseph Smith, Jr.

Dedication

for my parents Dave and Becky Ebershoff and for David Brownstein

First words

In the one year since I renounced my Mormon faith, and set out to tell the nation the truth about American polygamy, many people have wondered why I ever agreed to become a plural wife,

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Disambiguation notice

Publisher's editors

Kate Medina

Marianne Velmans (Doubleday UK)

Blurbers

Andrew Sean Greer

John Burnham Schwartz