Rebecca Lafferty | The Lafferty Girl

In parternership with the Utah Humanities Book Festival, The King's English is honored to host Rebecca Lafferty for her memoir, The Lafferty Girl: Surviving Trauma, Abuse, and My Father's Crime.

Rebecca will be in conversation with award winning writer and professor, Katie McNey. They will speak and take questions from the audience followed by a book signing.

This event is free and open to the public but we appreciate an RSVP.

Copies of the books will be available to purchase at the event. You may also pre-order signed copies of their books 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. Please specify in the comments if you would like your copy personalized.

About the Book:

Rebecca Lafferty grew up with a volatile, erratic, and ultimately notorious father, Dan Lafferty. She carried the scars of her traumatic upbringing through childhood and into adulthood. But most of all, Rebecca carried the horror of learning about the cold-blooded M**der of her aunt and infant cousin in 1984, perpetrated by Dan and Ron according to a revelation Ron had received—as profiled in the Jon Krakauer book and FX/Hulu series Under the Banner of Heaven.

Now, in this riveting memoir, Rebecca tells her own story of survival and healing. Her correspondence with Dan—serving life in Pr*son—insights from relatives, and most importantly, her own lived experience, give her an astoundingly deep point of view on the lead-up to the tragedy and its aftermath.

The messianic beliefs of radical LDS fundamentalists Dan Lafferty and his brother Ron drove them to commit an unspeakable crime. The Lafferty Girl (Sept. 30) is a riveting, raw, and unfiltered look at the Lafferty family saga from a daughter who lived it, and of her journey to self-love and forgiveness. Rebecca hopes to encourage other survivors of abuse and trauma to chart their own path to healing and peace.

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