First is her description of her conflicted feelings and emotional struggle over her apostacy. I found this, in particular, with respect to two aspects of her account. It is clear that she bears a pretty strong grudge against Brigham Young, and that no doubt colors her account.īut I also found much of what she wrote believable, and movingly so. And I would agree that, to some extent, her account is most certainly biased. As one might guess, I heard these comments from within the Mormon fold. From way back I had heard stories about one of Brigham Young's wives that left him, apostacized, and spoke out against polygamy-how she just had a chip on her shoulder, that she claimed all women were unhappy in polygamy when in fact nearly all were happy, that she was just biased and most of what she said could not be taken seriously, etc. I found this a seriously interesting book. The downside to that is that you have to read it on the computer, and it's 600 pages. You can buy it, or download it in pdf form from Ebershoff's website (that is what I did). She wrote a memoir in 1875 titled The 19th Wife. Ebershoff's book is a novel which parallels the stories of a modern-day fictional 19th wife of a polygamist and the historical 19th wife of Brigham Young, who divorced him and became an ardent foe of polygamy. After reading The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff, I had to read this book.
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