Combat Love

A Story of Leaving, Longing, and Searching for Home

De: Alisyn Camerota

Narrado por: Alisyn Camerota

Duración: 8 h y 31 m

Resumen del Editor

CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota's memoir Combat Love is her story of growing up longing for stability and attachment as the foundation of her family crumbled. Set on the Jersey Shore in the free-range 1980s, Camerota finds the belonging she craves courtesy of a local punk rock band named Shrapnel and their diehard fans. Combat Love chronicles 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 Love is also the story of two women, mother and daughter, trying to forge their own paths and independence, and find their own happiness, success, and wholeness. Camerota's story searches for the line between 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 Love is an inspiration for anyone who's ever searched for that elusive place called home.

©2024 Alisyn Camerota (P)2024 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Raw, honest

Held my attention. Surprisingly candid. Brave disclosures that give a glimpse at the person behind the public persona.

Elin recommended book

I Loved book. I didn’t know much about Alisyn prior to book but now I am a fan. Thanks for recommending, Elin.

Honest and engaging.

As a person of same generation there are so many similarities in our stories. It’s truly amazing how Alisyn soldiered through it all especially since she basically raised herself. Such intellect and resilience. Worth the read.

Title Should be Shrapnel

Uncountable fragments of this book will shock and stick with you. Beautifully written you will laugh, cry, pause, reflect and relate. This book is about life’s gritty and real parts. Alisyn is so impressive as she tells her story of vulnerability, weakness, strength, grit and courage.

Heartwarming!

Alisyn Camerota is smart, but most of all authentic, funny & brave. I loved everything about this book & highly recommend it.

raw honesty 👍

I enjoy all of this book. I'm sorry I missed her years on CNN.
having spent many
years on the Jersey shore it was very easy for me to feel at home again.
a story well told 🤔

fun!

i love alisyn. great stories. and hearing her nose sniffle as she read made me love her more.

Hateful parents

I’m sorry I even purchased this difficult book that is hard to listen to. Alison had a very difficult life yet she managed to overcome

Brave Authenticity

I was drawn to this book for a number of reasons. I grew up in the 70s and 80s and just like Alisyn, during the time of under parenting and lack of supervision. Not to mention I too was one of the only kids with divorced parents. This can be a recipe for disaster. I experienced similar situations and ironically went on the a career as a television journalist, the only thing I ever wanted to do. I loved Alysin’s ability to tell the authentic truth, as painful and sometimes shameful as it could have been, she didn’t shy away. As public figures, people think your life was always sunshine and rainbows. Or in Alysin’s case - dark, music filled nightclubs and sometimes rainbow colored pill parties. I applaud her pulling back the curtain. It was cathartic for me…and helped me realize, my parents did the best they could in uncharted waters. Bravo Alysin.