Review ~ "The 19th Wife" by David Ebershoff

This new release from David Ebershoff, The 19th Wife, was a great book. I almost passed on it when I found it in the mail. The cover was so bland and old, but the title was intriguing enough for me to try it out. I finished this book in a couple days. I couldn't put it down and the 500 plus pages seemed to fly by.

Mormonism is the topic of this book, though Mr. Ebershoff mixes fictional characters into the storyline, the basic components of the book are based upon some truths.

Normally, a book like this is meant to question faith, but this author successful left the essential idea of faith in tact while causing us to question what we have faith in.

Ann Eliza Young, a real woman, is resurrected in this book, as is her memoir from 1875. It will make you want to dig that book up and read it because of the complicated plotting and powerful emotional pull of Mr. Ebershoff's rendition of her life. She was Wife No. 19.