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#1 New York Times Bestseller
Oprah's Bookclub 2016 Selection
"Riveting...a worthy investment...this book has real wisdom."
-- New York Times Book Review
"Provocative....I adore her honesty, her vulnerability, and her no-nonsense wisdom, and I know you will, too."
-- Oprah Winfrey
The highly anticipated memoir by bestselling author Glennon Doyle, Love Warrior tells the story of her journey of self-discovery after the implosion of her marriage.
Just when Glennon Doyle Melton was beginning to feel she had it all figured out--three happy children, a doting spouse, and a writing career so successful that her first book catapulted to the top of the New York Times bestseller list--her husband revealed his infidelity and she was forced to realize that nothing was as it seemed. A recovering alcoholic and bulimic, Glennon found that rock bottom was a familiar place. In the midst of crisis, she knew to hold on to what she discovered in recovery: that her deepest pain has always held within it an invitation to a richer life.
Love Warrior is the story of one marriage, but it is also the story of the healing that is possible for any of us when we refuse to settle for good enough and begin to face pain and love head-on. This astonishing memoir reveals how our ideals of masculinity and femininity can make it impossible for a man and a woman to truly know one another--and it captures the beauty that unfolds when one couple commits to unlearning everything they've been taught so that they can finally, after thirteen years of marriage, commit to living true--true to themselves and to each other.
Love Warrior is a gorgeous and inspiring account of how we are born to be warriors: strong, powerful, and brave; able to confront the pain and claim the love that exists for us all. This chronicle of a beautiful, brutal journey speaks to anyone who yearns for deeper, truer relationships and a more abundant, authentic life.
Author Notes
Glennon Doyle Melton is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Carry On, Warrior, and the memoir Love Warrior which was announced as an Oprah 2.0 Book Club pick on September 6, 2016.
Glennon is also the founder of Momastery, an online community reaching millions of people each week. She is the creator and president of Together Rising--a non-profit organization that has raised over four million dollars for families around the world.
Glennon is a sought-after public speaker and her work has been featured on the TODAY Show, The Talk, OWN, and NPR and in The New York Times, Ladies' Home Journal, Glamour, Family Circle, Parents Magazine, Newsweek, Woman's Day, and in other television and print outlets.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
In this able, spiritual memoir, New York Times bestselling author Melton (Carry On, Warrior) inspires with her evolution from her alcoholic, bulimic, and promiscuous past, to today, when she feels on top of the world. When she becomes pregnant with her first child, she decides she's sick of living a half-dead life and stops drinking. She marries the father of her child and moves forward unsteadily until she finds her husband deep into porn and involved in one-night stands. She takes this as a cue to become a person that she can respect. She kicks her husband out, starts talking to God, goes into therapy, and practices yoga. In these activities she finds a series of insights that allow her to transform her life. Spiritual development is idiosyncratic, and Melton struggles to translate her experience into something universal. "You are love," she tells herself, and she's ecstatic at this discovery while the reader is floundering. But she writes well enough to create moments of accessible beauty. Women will want to reread passages that describe a return to intimacy with her similarly evolving husband and the speech she gives her young daughters about how sexiness is self-knowledge and self-respect, not stilettos and short skirts. (Sept.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
New York Review of Books Review
IN MEDICAL SCHOOLS, there's often a course students can opt to take about having difficult conversations . Most of us never take that course. One of the gifts of "Love Warrior" is that Glennon Doyle Melton has had those difficult - one might say impossible - conversations again and again. She is a recovering bulimic and alcoholic who became sober for marriage and motherhood. Then, three kids later, she discovers her husband is wrestling his own addictions: to pornography and sex with strangers. How she - and he - rebuild their lives, together and apart, is what makes "Love Warrior" so riveting. The best-selling memoir, which was also an Oprah's Book Club pick. begins with her descent - and her fall is precipitous. "Bulimia is my safe, deadly hiding place," she recalls. She was 10 years old when she started to binge and purge. "Each night, I bring two cups to bed with me - one filled with food and one to fill with vomit." Later, when she is an adult, even a job teaching third grade doesn't slow down the self-destruction. She spends the first half of the day sobering up from the night before. She's still "a good teacher," she writes. "My love for my students is my grip on the world. I lose that grip every day after dismissal when I drive out of the school parking lot and toward the grocery store to pick up two huge bottles of wine." She finds solace in church, but is frustrated that it closes just when bars are opening up. "The priest clears his throat and tells me it's time to go," she recalls. "I beg, 'At night? Why do you close at night? That's when people need to come.'" After she gets married, sobers up and starts a family, the news of her husband's betrayal, when it comes, is overwhelming: "He looks away from me and starts talking. The first words he says are, 'There have been other women. They've all been one-night stands. The first was a few months after our wedding.' I stop breathing." It can be easier to write your secrets than to say them. Anyone who has ever scrawled the words "Do you like me? Check yes or no," on a slip of paper and passed it to a classmate in elementary school knows this. Melton first finds the courage to tell her truth in a blog: "There is no way to be as honest in spoken words as I can be in written words. I wonder why it's so much easier to be honest with strangers than with family." So there is something particularly special about listening to her narrate the audiobook version of "Love Warrior"; the experience is a little like being holed up with a friend on a girls' getaway weekend and hearing her spill that, despite the Facebook posts and holiday cards you've shared for years, there's a lot more to her story. She tells you how she fought for her marriage and, most importantly, fought for herself. Listening to the audiobook, one feels even more powerfully that Melton is not merely relaying a narrative; she is offering her story with the hope and purpose of connection. "In all my close friendships, words are the bricks I use to build bridges," she says. "To know someone I need to hear her, and to feel known, I need to be heard by her. The process of knowing and loving another person happens for me through conversation." YOU MAY NOT listen to "Love Warrior" all at once, but it offers the best of what audiobooks can do: It slows the narrative down and draws you in close, as if the author is talking to you, and only to you. You can't skim or skip pages the way you can with a printed book, so you don't miss a word. At seven and a half hours, "Love Warrior" can be finished in a weekend or during a week's commute. Even after all the book's success, I know there are some who might find the title and the touchy-feely subject off-putting. To them I would say this: Listening to such a warm and emotionally intelligent author is a worthy investment in a course on difficult conversations, if nothing else. But I suspect that if you give in to the possibility that this book has real wisdom, what will win you over is - to use Melton's words - all the "terrible magic" that happens when things fall apart. VERONICA CHAMBERS is the editor of "The Meaning of Michelle: 16 Writers on Our Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own" which will be published in January.