After the Wolf: A Novel

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, newly baptized Mormon Altus Pace is called westward with his fellow believers. In California, 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 and raise four sons in isolated piety. When they tak...