Communion

"When truth teller and careful writer bell hooks offers a book, I like to be standing at the bookshop when it opens." -Maya Angelou

Renowned visionary bell hooks explored the meaning of love in American culture with the critically acclaimed bestseller All About Love: New Visions. She continued her national dialogue with the bestselling Salvation: Black People and Love. Now hooks culminates her triumphant trilogy of love with Communion: The Female Search for Love.

Intimate, revealing, provocative, Communion challenges every woman to courageously claim the search for love as the heroic journey we must all choose to be truly free in a patriarchal culture. In her trademark commanding and lucid language, hooks explores the ways ideas about women and love were changed by the feminist movement, by women's full participation in the workforce, and by the culture of self-help, and reveals how women of all ages can achieve emotional growth and bring love into every aspect of their lives, for all the years of their lives.

Communion is the heart-to-heart talk every woman - mother, daughter, friend, and lover - needs to have.

This landmark book is a profound exploration of women's liberation and the path to love, offering a vision for:

• Feminist Theory on Love: Discover how the feminist movement forever changed our ideas about love, partnership, and power, challenging the ideology of domination.
• The Path to Self-Love: Understand why claiming the search for love is a heroic journey, and how a woman's freedom is tied to her capacity for self-acceptance.
• Sisterhood and Solidarity: A heart-to-heart talk for every mother, daughter, friend, and lover on building circles of love that nurture and sustain collective female well-being.
• Finding Lasting Love: Receive guidance for women of all ages on bringing authentic love into every aspect of their lives, for all the years of their lives.

bell hooks was an influential cultural critic, feminist theorist, and writer. Celebrated as one of America's leading public intellectuals, she was a charismatic speaker and writer who taught and lectured around the world. Previously a professor in the English departments at Yale University and Oberlin College, hooks was the author of more than 17 books, including the New York Times bestseller All About Love: New Visions; Salvation: Black People and Love; Communion: the Female Search for Love, as well as the landmark memoir Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood.

"A powerful guidebook to life." - Library Journal

"Masterful. A thinking women's (and man's) valentine, a fitting conclusion to hooks' groundbreaking work on love in American life." - Los Angeles Times