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May 20, 2013
"Four days after fleeing from the fundamentalist polygamist Doomsday cult in which she raised her daughters, Amity and Sorrow, Amaranth totals her car in the Oklahoma panhandle. Terrified of her husband (she's the first of his 50 wives), she refuses to leave the land she crashed on, disrupting the life of the farmer who owns it. Meanwhile, true believer Sorrow wants nothing more than to return, while 12-year-old Amity just wants to learn how to read... and help her sister, who is dangerously unbalanced. Told in chapters that alternate between the past and present, the reasons behind Amaranth's fears and Sorrow's zeal slowly become clear. A more disturbing tale than others that share similar concepts (like David Ebershoff's The 19th Wife), this debut is at once wrenching and compelling." May 2013 Fiction A to Z newsletter http://www.nextreads.com/Display2.aspx?SID=5acc8fc1-4e91-4ebe-906d-f8fc5e82a8e0&N=635711