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Praise for Secrets and Wives <br> Many of us recognize the stock images of polygamy: the child brides from isolated compounds, like the Yearning for Zion ranch, and the suburban homemakers on television, yearning for their husbands. In Secrets and Wives: The Secret World of Mormon Polygamy, British journalist Sanjiv Bhattacharya pushes past these caricatures to show what Mormon polygamists are really like. -- Slate <br> Though fundamentalist Mormon polygamy is portrayed in a benign light on TV (e.g., Big Love ), the reality is for the most part much grimmer . . . This is a riveting read for both Bhattacharya's wry and heartfelt style and the nature of the material. -- LIbrary Journal <br>Praise for The Man with 80 Wives <br> Sanjiv Bhattacharya, a likable reporter who smoothed over rebuffs (there were many) with charm, tracked [Warren Jeff's] trail of destruction from Canada to Texas . . . Sanjiv seemed worried Warren might kill himself and his followers. He is, f

Praise for Secrets and Wives <br> Many of us recognize the stock images of polygamy: the child brides from isolated compounds, like the Yearning for Zion ranch, and the suburban homemakers on television, yearning for their husbands. In Secrets and Wives: The Secret World of Mormon Polygamy, British journalist Sanjiv Bhattacharya pushes past these caricatures to show what Mormon polygamists are really like. -- Slate <br> Though fundamentalist Mormon polygamy is portrayed in a benign light on TV (e.g., Big Love ), the reality is for the most part much grimmer . . . This is a riveting read for both Bhattacharya's wry and heartfelt style and the nature of the material. -- LIbrary Journal <br>Praise for The Man with 80 Wives <br> Sanjiv Bhattacharya, a likable reporter who smoothed over rebuffs (there were many) with charm, tracked [Warren Jeff's] trail of destruction from Canada to Texas . . . Sanjiv seemed worried Warren might kill himself and his followers. He is, i

Praise for The Man with 80 Wives <br><br> Sanjiv Bhattacharya, a likable reporter who smoothed over rebuffs (there were many) with charm, tracked [Warren Jeff's] trail of destruction from Canada to Texas . . . Sanjiv seemed worried Warren might kill himself and his followers. He is, as I said, a nice young man. -- The Guardian (U.K.)<br><br> A compelling portrait of a sex-obsessed, racist false prophet . . . [Sanjiv] has a nice manner for a documentary TV interrogator . . . slightly bumbling, ingenuous, soft-spoken, wide-eyed, innately self-critical. -- The Sunday Herald (Scotland)<br>

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