Bill Sehl

Collector of Broken Wives Bill Sehl

Several years ago the IRS identified what they believe to beapproximately 75,000 polygamous households in California. Also,polygamy has become an accepted and common practice in France, a nationthat has historically had quite an influence on American culture,specifically our sexual mores. However, as has happened in our nation'spast, polygamy has the potential of fomenting quite a bit ofcontroversy. We live today in an era of choice in lifestyles,ranging from traditional marriage to living together (cohabitation), tohomosexual relationships. It is interesting that some of thesealternative lifestyles, such as homosexuality, draw a storm ofcriticism, while others such as cohabitation draw little more than awhisper or passing glance. It is also interesting that when thehomosexuals gain a victory on any level, their critics immediately comeout with a list of lifestyles and other activities that will be loosedupon our society due to that particular decision. What is even moreinteresting is that polygamy (one husband, more than one wife) isalways at the top of their list. However, it appears that these peopledo not realize that the polygamous lifestyle here in these UnitedStates is not just practiced in Utah by some renegade Mormons. It is,in fact, practiced all across our fair land. Can polygamousfamilies survive in our society today? After my considerable researchon the subject, it appears to me that the answer is a qualified yes. So, I have written a novel, set in the Sacramento, California area,spanning the years 1992 through 2002. Although written to entertain,describes how poly families can survive, even thrive in an environmentsuch as the capital of our nation's most populous state.