Maureen Clark | Confessions of a Once Upon a Time Mormon Girl

Maureen Clark | Confessions of a Once Upon a Time Mormon Girl Thursday Sep 3rd, 2026 6:30 – 8:30 PM Join local author, Maureen Clark for an event celebrating her memoir, Confessions of a Once Upon a Time Mormon Girl. Copies of the book will be available to purchase at the event. You may also pre-order your signed copy to be picked up at the event by either calling the store at 801-484-9100 or ordering online. If you cannot make this event, signed copies may be ordered from our website. Places in the signing line are reserved for those who have purchased a book from The King’s English Bookshop. About the book: It is 1975 and, like every young Mormon couple, Jon and Maureen will start their life together with a temple wedding. But first, they must participate in the preparatory Endowment Ceremony which turns out to be full of shocking experiences, such as agreeing to have their throats slit or to be disemboweled if they ever speak of the secret things that happen inside the temple. In spite of this horrifying start, they go through with their wedding the next day and begin their life together. Thirty years later, Jon announces he is leaving the Mormon Church, and all that repressed trauma rises up as Maureen examines how those early covenants affected her. She is battling her own lack of faith in a church that is becoming more conservative every day.