# Novels about Mormons

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 15, 2011, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novels-about-mormons/592751 "2011-08-15T03:35:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![jayrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jayrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayrey)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2014, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novels-about-mormons/592751/41 "2014-07-08T03:39:53Z")

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> [@Sampiro](#):
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> Avoid David Ebershoff’s _The 19th Wife_ like the plague unless you just love purple prose so thick you can swim in it. The author’s a Creative Writing professor and I’m beginning to think that’s “nuff said”.

I second this. I struggled to get halfway through \*The 19th Wife \*and then, thankfully, just gave up.

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