He writes with compassion and care about a difficult subject and does a very good job. It's a good historical fiction book that the author appears to have researched deeply.
She had been brought up in the church and her mother was one of multiple wives, so she saw firsthand the toll of the practice. Eliza Ann Young became famous when she divorced Brigham Young and set out on a lecture tour about the evils of polygamy in the 1870s. The more historical sections were a little slower but just as intriguing. As Jordan attempts to free his mother, I learned a lot about the current church and the sects of believers called the Firsts who still believe in polygamy. Jordan's mother is a true believer who left Jordan on the side of a highway when he was fourteen because he held a girl's hand though he later realized he was gay, so he was on a countdown out the door anyway. The book splits between a current story about a young man, Jordan, whose mother has been arrested for the murder of her polygamous husband, and letters, journals, etc about the story of Ann Eliza Young, Brigham Young's infamous 19th wife. What an interesting book! Aside from genealogy, I don't know much about the Church of Latter-Day Saints, so I was doing a lot of research on the side as I read.
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