This is a sort of famous book about the Mormon church and more specifically the fundamentalist wing of the church--I guess not really part of the official Mormon church. The fundamentalist believe and practice polygamy which while illegal they still find ways around and live in basically enclosed towns of like minded believers. The author Jon Krakauer, talks about brothers that are part of this fundamentalist wing that say that they had a revelation to kill people that were against them and they kill one of their brother's wife and their baby daughter. They were also to kill a couple more people but that didn't happen. While telling that story he also works in research on the history of the Mormon church--an interesting and at times violent history. The end of the book the author has an appendix where he answers criticisms of his book by a Mormon historian.
There are 12 WL for this book. Not sure if I will loan it out or mail it off at this point though.
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