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What do we really know about modern practicing polygamists - not fictional ones like the Henrickson family on HBO's Big Love? We've seen the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Second option Day Saints in the news headlines, the underage brides in pioneer dresses on a Texas ranch. However the FLDS is merely one of many groups that have damaged with mainstream Mormonism to check out those parts of Joseph Smith's doctrine disavowed by the LDS Church. Gaining unprecedented access to these neighborhoods, journalist Sanjiv Bhattacharya discloses a shadow country teeming with small town messiahs, dark secrets, and reports both heartbreaking and unusual. Polygamy's dark side - incest, compelled marriages, and physical mistreatment - is laid bare. But Bhattacharya also confirms friendliness in the fundamentalist diaspora and even confirms himself taking an ideological are a symbol of polygamy's legalization. A lot more than just an exposé of Mormon polygamy, Secrets and Wives is the personal journey of an foreign atheist and liberal, a stranger in a unusual land who grapples with hard questions about marriage, monogamy, and the very nature of trust.
