Combat love : a story of leaving, longing, and searching for home /
Camerota, Alisyn,
Combat love : a story of leaving, longing, and searching for home / Alisyn Camerota. - First hardcover edition. - 285 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
"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"--Amazon.
9781644283714 1644283719
Camerota, Alisyn.
Women journalists--Biography.
Television journalists--United States--Biography.
Autobiographies.
Combat love : a story of leaving, longing, and searching for home / Alisyn Camerota. - First hardcover edition. - 285 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
"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"--Amazon.
9781644283714 1644283719
Camerota, Alisyn.
Women journalists--Biography.
Television journalists--United States--Biography.
Autobiographies.