The 19th Wife: characters

How does your opinion of the characters change as The 19th Wife progresses? What influences that change of opinion more, the character’s own action or the assorted fictional documents like letters, papers, etc.?

The 19th Wife: escape

In The 19th Wife, Ann Eliza recounts her story of fleeing a polygamous marriage; this is contrasted with the stories of some of the Mesadale women attempting to leave their polygamous marriages and families. In what ways are these stories, separated by more than 100 years, similar? In what ways are they different?

19th Wife: mothers

In David Ebershoff’s The 19th Wife, how do Ann Eliza’s mother and Jordan’s mother influence the decisions they make? What do these decisions say about faith?