Combat Love: A Story of Leaving, Longing, and Searching for Home

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Alisyn Camerota's memoirCombat Loveand their diehard fans.Combat Lovechronicles her near-misses and misadventures at clubs like CBGB and Max's Kansas City, coupled with the sex, drugs, and punk rock of 1980s New Jersey. By the time she leaves home at sixteen, it feels like home had left her long ago.

Combat Lovebetween shelter and risk, nurture and neglect, parenting and personal freedom. What are we willing to sacrifice for self-actualization and happiness What if the answer is your mother, or your daughter

The two-time Emmy-award-winning Camerota retraces her steps down an often gritty path toward her dream of becoming a journalist. At times heartbreaking and pulse-pounding,Combat Loveis an inspiration for anyone who's ever searched for that elusive place called home.

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"Combat Love is far more than an audacious coming of age story. Its a reminder that beneath a successful adults polished exterior is the wildness of youth, vulnerability and loss. Camerota shows us the hard-earned work of finding your voice. So, while you might pick up Combat Love because of the authors familiar face, you wont be able to put it down for her candor, wit, and storytelling. In an embarrassment of riches, Alisyn Camerota is as singular a writer as she is a broadcast journalist."Adrienne Brodeur, bestselling author of Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me

"A candid chronicle of hard-won survival."Kirkus Reviews

"Combat Love transcends Alisyn's personal journey to serve as a powerful reminder that our deepest wounds can become catalysts to chase our wildest dreams and seize life's opportunitiesand that confronting those wounds can lead us 'home.' And, yes, that route may be through sex, drugs, and punk rock."Stephanie Szostak, actor and author of Selfish

"Combat Love is a compelling and candid account of a time in Alisyn's youth where risk and danger were more present than security and comfort. Its a heartbreaking and raw account of living on the cusp of things going very wrong. Readers will reap the rewards of Alisyn's story of survival." Jake Tapper, CNN Anchor and author of The Devil May Dance and The Hellfire Club

Author Bio

Alisyn Camerota is a journalist, author, anchor and correspondent for CNN. In her three decades in journalism, Camerota has covered stories nationally and internationally, earning two Emmy Awards and the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award. Alisyns debut novel, Amanda Wakes Up, was selected by National Public Radio as one of the best books of 2017, and by Oprah Magazine as a must read.Her memoir Combat Love is set to be published in March 2024.