Wolf Act

Aj Romriell (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

168 Seiten

2025
University of Wisconsin Press (Verlag)
978-0-299-34994-3 (ISBN)

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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.

AJ Romriell is a writer, photographer, and educator who has published work in Black Warrior Review, Brevity, Great River Review, and elsewhere. Originally from Sandy, Utah, he currently lives in Columbus, Ohio, with his partner and their feline companion, Sokka the Wildercat.

The Wolf Boy Overture

ACT I
Names & Other Prophecies
Stain
Mormon Lessons on Modesty
Gracious Ruin
A Wolf Boy Interlude

ACT II
Showerhead Reflections
Wolf Act
A Dictionary of the Voiceless
The Magic Kingdom: Part 1, Forced Perspective
The Magic Kingdom: Part 2, Unicorns and Broken Things
A Wolf Boy Interlude

ACT III
Howl
Piercing
Ghost Boys: A Bricolage
Searching for Spirits in Quarantine

WOLF BOY CODA

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.2.2025
Reihe/Serie	Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog
Verlagsort	Wisconsin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-299-34994-2 / 0299349942
ISBN-13	978-0-299-34994-3 / 9780299349943
Zustand	Neuware