Secrets and wives : the hidden world of Mormon polygamy / Sanjiv Bhattacharya.
Bhattacharya, Sanjiv.
2011
BX8641 .B46 2011 (Mapit)
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Title Secrets and wives : the hidden world of Mormon polygamy / Sanjiv Bhattacharya.
Author Bhattacharya, Sanjiv.
Cover Title Secrets & wives
ISBN 9781593764081 (pbk.)
1593764081 (pbk.)
Imprint Berkeley, CA : Soft Skull Press/Counterpoint : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2011.
Language English
Description x, 367 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number BX8641 .B46 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.84/23088289373
Summary There are some 40,000 Mormon fundamentalists in America today, all of whom cleave to the doctrine of polygamy. But outside of what we see on HBO's Big love and the occasional news story when a scandal breaks, what do we really know about their world? Polygamy is a diaspora--a hidden sprawl--and in Secrets and wives, journalist Sanjiv Bhattacharya gains unprecedented access to these communities. With charm and irreverence, he reveals a shadow country of small town messiahs, dark secrets and no end of strange and surprising stories. Polygamy's dark underbelly is laid bare--details of incest, forced marriages and hideous abuse. But Bhattacharya also finds warmth and humor in fundamentalism, and even finds himself questioning the present laws against polygamy. More than just an expose of Mormon polygamy, Secrets and wives is the personal journey of a foreigner, an atheist and a liberal--a stranger in a strange land--who grapples with questions about marriage, monogamy, and the very nature of faith.
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