AJ Romriell | Wolf Act – Salt Lake City, UT

Join AJ Romriell and Alison Field Bell for a conversation discussing AJ’s new book, Wolf Act.

This event is $5 and open to the public. Registration is required.

Copies of the book will be available to purchase at the event. You may also pre-order your signed copy of Wolf Act to pick up at the event by either calling the store at 801-484-9100 or ordering online. If you cannot make this event, signed copies of Wolf Act may be ordered from our website. Please specify in the comments if you would like your copy personalized. Places in the signing line are reserved for those who purchase a copy from The King’s English.

About the Book:

As a child, AJ Romriell strove to obey his Mormon leaders’ every rule. If he was faithful enough, he was taught, God would remove temptations. But at nineteen, returning home early from his mission after admitting his attraction to men, he was forced to make a decision: either stay the course or work to accept himself fully and risk losing family, community, and the Church he’d devoted his life to. His decision to pursue radical acceptance would turn out to be just one step toward reclaiming his life. Through linked personal essays crafted in lyric, fabulist, and fragmented forms, Wolf Act charts a young man’s transformation. Weaving together wolfish fairy tales and mythology, Mormon theology and practice, piercings and tattoos, cave explorations, ghost stories, and more, Romriell explores a childhood of hiding, a familial reckoning, a religious exodus, and an effort to understand one’s life as worth saving—even when the meaning of the word “saving” must be reimagined.