Finding Karen

"Account of the author's Danish great-great-grandmother, who converted to Mormonism, emigrated to the United States in the mid-nineteenth century, and struggled with life in the new country and, like the author herself, the concept of plural marriage"—

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adult
Length
medium · 256 pages

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