What draws an author to spend a decade working on a fiction novel about a polygamist? It’s actually pretty simple for Brady Udall. “Without polygamy, I wouldn’t exist,” says the author. His great-great grandfather was a polygamist, and his great-great grandmother was his second wife. In 1998, long before the HBO series Big Love or TLC’s reality show Sister Wives, Udall wrote an article on contemporary polygamy for Esquire. What he found while researching the piece surprised and fascinated him, leading him to write The Lonely Polygamist. At the center of the story is Golden, who, at ...
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