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A very thick book (800 pages or so), but I loved it. The hardback book is the version that I read (not the one pictured above) and I think that's the best because you have a big essay at the end by Card that explains the story behind writing the book.

I have to confess that I had my husband start reading it and he was bothered by the use of swear words. To me the "colorful" words and some mature situations that were described (tastefully) I compare to looking at a classic painting with a nude woman in it - there is a purpose to the nudity and it gives a deeper meaning to the message of the painting - and it's done tastefully and doesn't give you the feeling that you're looking at porn. I've read other books with less swear words and mature situations that were written in such a way that I felt tainted and put down the book. Anyway - back to the book's content . . . the quickest answer would be to say that it is like the Work and the Glory series except with well written dialog, narration, characterization . . . okay so the only similarity is that it is a story of a fictional family in the 1800's whose lives become intertwined with the lives of real historical people such as Emma Smith, Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball etc. What I think is most amazing is his treatment of polygomy. If that isn't the hardest subject to tackle, I don't know what is, but he pulled it off with amazing insight, I believe.