He runs his own business and coaches Little League. She drives a minivan, and she'd be lost without her trusty BlackBerry. They go on date nights. Their kids attend public schools, play sports, and take music lessons. They live in a roomy house in the ‘burbs. They're about as mainstream as families come. They're also polygamists. Love Times Three, the first-ever memoir of a polygamous family, is a riveting inside look at a world most of us can hardly imagine, revealing the extraordinary workings of the Dargers' day-to-day life. In this intimate, inside story, the Dargers explain why they chose this path despite the pressures of keeping their relationships secret and the jealousy and personal challenges that naturally ensue, why they believe polygamy should be an accepted lifestyle, and, ultimately, why they hope that by revealing their way of life in public, laws that criminalize their lifestyle might change.

本作の魅力は、アメリカの平穏な郊外生活という日常風景と、一夫多妻制という特異な関係性が同居する鮮烈な違和感にあります。嫉妬や葛藤といった生々しい人間心理を、信仰と理性で昇華させようとする真摯な筆致は、愛の形に正解があるのかという根源的な問いを突きつけます。 法や社会の境界線上でアイデンティティを懸けて闘う彼らの姿には、叙事詩的な重みがあります。秘密を抱えながらも幸福を追求する家族の記録は、既存の倫理観を揺さぶるだけでなく、共同体が持つ無限の可能性と犠牲の尊さを描き出しており、読者の魂を激しく揺さぶる一冊です。