from a luminous storyteller a highly anticipated new novel about the american family writ largegolden richards husband to four wives father to twentyeight children is having the mother of all midlife crises his construction business is failing his family has grown into an overpopulated minidukedom beset with insurrection and rivalry and he is done in with grief due to the accidental death of a daughter and the stillbirth of a son he has come to doubt the capacity of his own heart brady udall one of our finest american fiction writers tells a tragicomic story of a deeply faithful man who crippled by grief and the demands of work and family becomes entangled in an affair that threatens to destroy his familys future like john irving and richard yates udall creates characters that engage us to the fullest as they grapple with the nature of need love and belonging beautifully written keenly observed and ultimately redemptive the lonely polygamist is an unforgettable story of an american familywith its inevitable dysfunctionality heartbreak and comedypushed to its outer limits