After the Wolf

A gripping chronicle of a Mormon family in the American West, with shades of Annie Proulx and Larry McMurtry

Electrified by a handshake with the prophet Joseph Smith, Altus Pace, a newly baptized Mormon, is called westward with his fellow believers. In California, though, he is alarmed by the heavy-handed patriarchy and plural marriage codified by Smith’s successor, Brigham Young. Ignoring Young’s call to gather in Utah, Altus and his wife go to Texas to raise four sons in isolated piety. Bu...