The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall

I understand HBO sitcom Big Love is loosely based on this book. Golden Richards, husband to four wives and father to twenty-eight children is having a midlife crisis. #1 wife Beverly aspires to rules the roost but things can be pretty much described as chaos. Golden spends most of the week away in another state at his work site (for a brothel, no less) and the wives are getting testy. The kids are running amok. The first part of this novel is pretty humorous given the situations Golden and his family gets embroiled in, but then things take a turn for the worse. This was a very interesting book to read and I would recommend if you can take polygamy with a grain of salt.