![]() ![]() ![]() Laake married Monty in an arcane ceremony whose esoteric details are zestfully described here pledged to wear ``garments'' (a kind of sanctified nightgown) for the rest of her life and began what most Americans would consider a bizarre life that included the recycling of condoms through vigorous washing. Moreover, the author intended to wed not any man but ``the One''-the marriage partner predestined by God-and when she began to doubt that one narrow-minded but extraordinarily persistent suitor, Monty Brown, was the One, Monty and Laake's own brother rushed to her side to exorcise ``the devil'' that had invaded her soul. Though Laake is now a professional journalist, she was raised in a Mormon family and sent to Brigham Young University with one paramount aim: to find and marry ``a faithful Mormon man.'' Without such a marriage, plus the guidance that only a devout husband could provide, she would ``be denied access to the highest level of Mormon heaven''-just one of the many unusual aspects of the emphatically patriarchal religion that Laake reveals here. A candid, often startling memoir of the author's life as a Mormon wife. ![]()
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