The Rogue Shop

The Rogue Shop
By Michael Knudsen
Bonneville Books, 2010. 282 pgs. Fiction

Chris Kerry leaves Texas for Salt Lake City promising his aunt that he'll never become a Mormon. He's come for an education at the University of Utah and finds a job in a formal wear rental shop. He makes friends in his apartment building and builds some relationships at the tuxedo shop. Some of the shop's employees have secrets and pain that go back decades. Chris's good nature and compassion help to bring about much good in this pain-filled place. Meanwhile, he also becomes close friends with two young Mormon girls in his apartment building, which leads to some real surprises in this story. This plot-driven story starts slow but eventually picks up to the point where I couldn't put it down.

SML