Deborah laake book secret ceremonies of the mormon church

As a book that states the unspeakable the official and unofficial secret ceremonies that underlie the lives of mormon wives it is a triumphant act of selfaffirmation. She was famous for her 1993 book entitled secret ceremonies. The book lifted the veil on the church s marriage rites and delivered searing and often funny commentary. After being turned down by 12 publishing houses, the memoir she wrote about her. A mormon womans intimate diary of marriage and beyond by deborah laake morrow. The book is written in first hand experience of deborah laake s journey from innocents in the mormon culture to awareness of how the mormon culture is really ridged against women. Secret ceremonies by deborah laake 1994, paperback for. Laake didnt know that her mental illness would return or that she was developing breast cancer and that she would eventually take her own life february 6, 2000 when she was putting the finishing touches on this book.

Though laake is now a professional journalist, she was raised in a mormon family and sent to brigham young. Laakes wacky sexual secrets go on and on in secret ceremonies. Ms laake is now an ex mormon, living in phoenix, arizona, and the author of a book in which she breaks the most sacred of the church s vows by revealing the marriage rites at the core of the faith. This book landed in my lap via my husband who heard it mentioned in a crime. Deborah laake was a staff writer and columnist for the dallas morning news and editor and executive at new times. Secret ceremonies is laake s comingofage story about her life as a mormon wife and woman. Laake, a former member of the church of jesus christ of latterday saints lds church, chronicles her experiences with mormonism and the various rituals performed in their temples.

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