Mother’s Day countdown continues…..May 9, 2010 is the deadline!!! Here’s another suggestion for you and yours!
The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall
Golden Richards, despite having 4 wives and 28 children, is a lonely man. His construction business is failing, his standing in the church is slipping, his family is beset with insurrection and rivalry and he is succumbing to grief due to the accidental death of a daughter and the stillborn birth of a son. The problems that this dysfunctional family have are not any different from the problems most all families have they are just multiplied four times!! Brady Udall does a fantastic job of letting us into a polygamist family and helps us remember that they are human too. Golden has told his family that his job in Nevada is building a senior center when it’s actually a brothel, The Pussycat Manor, his newest and youngest wife, Trish, is wondering if the polygamist lifestyle is really for her, and Rusty (son #5, “The Family Terrorist”, age 11) plots his revenge for being shafted on his birthday, oh and last but not least is there a new wife on the horizon? This is the story of an American family full of dysfunction, heartbreak, and laughter-not much different from mine and yours!
“The Lonely Polygamist is a hefty, eager, and bittersweet novel, and it is a page-turner. Brady Udall deals with familial chaos, reckless behavior, and alarming pyrotechnics with wit, grace, and tenderness. He’s an enchanter who casts his spell with exquisite sentences and unerring, evocative details. Here is a writer of inordinate compassion and formidable intelligence. Read this remarkable novel, friend, live with it, and I promise you this, little Rusty Richards will haunt your dreams.” John Dufresne, author of Love Warps the Mind a Little
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