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This ambitious third novel tells two parallel stories of polygamy. The film follows 19th wife and fundamentalist sect first church of latter day saints member beckylyn (patricia wettig), who is accused of killing her husband. The 19th wife is a 2010 lifetime television film and adaptation of david ebershoff's 2008 novel of the same name.

The first recounts brigham young's expulsion of one of his wives, ann eliza, from the mormon church;

Eliza caused a national sensation when she renounced the practice of polygamy and sued young for divorce. The 19th wife is a 2008 novel by david ebershoff. Queenie, another wife in the polygamist sect, doesn't believe beckylyn is capable of such violence and desperate to prove her innocence reaches out to her. Recommended by my librarian friend based on my enjoyment of jon krakauer's under the banner of heaven.