Adaptations Ī television movie adaptation aired on Lifetime on September 13, 2010, starring Matt Czuchry, Patricia Wettig, and Chyler Leigh. The novel was nominated for the Ferro-Grumley Award. In a review of the book for The New York Times, Louisa Thomas wrote, 'the multiplicity of perspectives serves to broaden Ebershoff’s depiction not only of polygamy, but also of the people whose lives it informs,' giving the novel 'a rare sense of moral urgency.' John O'Connell for The Guardian wrote, 'or the most part this is intelligent, compelling stuff with several decent twists.' The 19th Wife was #12 on the New York Times Bestseller List the week of August 31, 2008. Now his father has been found shot dead in front of his computer, and one of his many wives - Jordans mother - is accused of the crime. She remains in the community and helps Jordan investigate their father's murder. He is excommunicated when he is caught holding hands with her. Queenie is Jordan Scott's half-sister.BeckyLyn Scott is accused of killing her husband.A fellow wife, Queenie (Leigh) is convinced of her friends innocence and with BeckyLyns son, Jordan (Czuchry) they work to clear his mothers name. He is a young homosexual man who works in the Los Angeles area in construction. Amidst a Southern Utah Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints community, BeckyLyn (Wettig) is accused of murdering her polygamist husband. Jordan has been excommunicated from his religious sect.

Jordan Scott is the son of BeckyLyn Scott who is accused of killing Jordan's father.

Interspersed with this murder mystery is a late 1800s historical narrative about Ann Eliza Young, who called herself the 19th wife of Latter-day Saint church president Brigham Young. His mother is the 19th wife of his father.

Jordan Scott has been expelled from his fundamentalist sect in modern-day southern Utah, but returns to determine whether his mother killed his father. When the hardships of the hunters life became too much, Lucy Ann re-entered society, began dressing as a woman and wrote a book 'detailing her adventures in the woods,' noting that she had. Inspired by the life of Ann Eliza Young, the novel intertwines a historical narrative with a modern-day murder mystery. The 19th Wife is a 2008 novel by David Ebershoff.

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