To date, there are more than 500,000 copies of the book in print it spent 15 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list for hardcover nonfiction, rising to No. After a pair of divorces-and the sexual suspicion and humiliating "rehabilitation" that followed-and two psychiatric hospitalizations, she fell away from the church altogether and saved herself from someone else's idea of salvation. Secret Ceremonies, for those who have not yet read it, documents an earlier struggle in Laake's life: coming of age in the Mormon church, then failing to conform to its rigid dogma, especially its subjugation of women. Laake is a staff writer for New Times and an executive managing editor for the five cities in which New Times has newspapers, though for nearly a year she has been on medical leave fighting breast cancer. 11 on the New York Times Bestseller List for paperback nonfiction after nine weeks on the list. As of last Sunday, Deborah Laake's book Secret Ceremonies sat at No.
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