It s an awful quandary to be a Mormon father who is unworthy to baptize your daughter. As a cowboy intellectual, Hyrum James must carefully navigate the austere religion that stands sentinel-like over his small town. While his eight-year-old daughter Clara understands her father s delicate position, Hyrum s ex-wife Jesse can t comprehend why he won t fall in line and be a good Mormon man. In rural Utah what is personal is also communal and social...