“This is a riveting read for both Bhattacharya’s wry and heartfelt style and the nature of the material.”—Library Journal

“Part cultural reportage, part personal musings, the book chronicles the author’s yearlong journey into America’s fundamentalist Mormon communities. Bhattacharya pushes past caricatures to show what Mormon polygamists are really like. A sensationalist smackdown this is not.”—Slate

“Bhattacharya gained impressive access inside the polygamist compounds, weaving a fascinating and entertaining tale. The author becomes a character in the book himself as he turns his journalistic lens inward and examines his own spiritual and cultural ideology with the same unblinking candor and disarming humor.”—Huffington Post

“From his telling beginning, a quote from Bob Dylan, Bhattacharya is amusingly off and running, and readers will want to follow his punchy magazine-trained voice wherever it may lead.”—Publishers Weekly

 I began reporting on polygamy around 2004, when Warren Jeffs, the prophet of the FLDS cult, was on the run from the FBI. Over the next four years I wrote several magazine stories about polygamy, a book of investigative journalism, and I wrote and presented a Channel Four documentary titled The Man With 80 Wives. You can watch the 2006 documentary here, it’s been uploaded to vimeo in two parts. Part 1, and Part 2.