The Lonely Polygamist
Author: Brady Udall
From a luminous storyteller, a highly anticipated new novel about the American family writ large.Golden Richards, husband to four wives, father to twenty-eight children, is having the mother of all midlife crises. His construction business is failing, his family has grown into an overpopulated mini-dukedom beset with insurrection and rivalry, and he is done in with grief:….Read More
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