Red Water A Novel

Judith Freeman's critically acclaimed novel Red Water is a brilliant re-creation of a formative period in the American West and a controversial episode in the history of the United State's most successful native church. In 1857, at a place called Mountain Meadow in southern Utah, 120 emigrants were massacred. Twenty years later, one man was blamed: John D. Lee, previously a member of Brigham Young's inner circle. Red Water imagines Lee's life through the eyes of three of his nineteen wives. As these spirited women describe their struggle to survive Utah's punishing landscape and the rivalries within their polygamous family, a portrait emerges of Lee as a magnetic, industrious, considerate husband, but also as a man unafraid of using his faith to justify desire and ambition.

Judith Freeman is the author of three novels–<b>The Chinchilla Farm</b><i>, </i><b>Set for Life</b><i>, </i>and <b>A Desert of Pure Feeling</b><i>–</i>and of <b>Family Attractions</b><i>, </i>a collection of stories. She lives in California.