This is also a love story : a reporter's search for goodness in a cruel world / Sally Hayden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hayden, Sally (Journalist), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Love--Social aspects.

Love.

Couples--Biography.

Couples.

Families--Biography.

Families.

War and families.

Interpersonal relations.

Journalists--United States.

Journalists.

Families--Psychological aspects.

Collective trauma.

Adjustment (Psychology).

love (emotion).

Genre:

Anecdotes.

Physical Description:

xvii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First Scribner hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Scribner, 2026.

Summary:

An acclaimed reporter takes us on an unforgettable journey, capturing the human capacity for love and connection against all odds. We live in an era defined by crisis--whether it be war and displacement, climate collapse, or growing inequality, and how the powerful profit from violence and exploitation.

We live in an era defined by crisis--whether it be war and displacement, climate collapse, or growing inequality, and how the powerful profit from violence and exploitation. Celebrated foreign correspondent Sally Hayden has spent her career on the frontlines, uncovering some of the darkest moments of our time. Yet even in the face of unimaginable adversity, she's witnessed the incredible goodness of regular people. In This Is Also a Love Story, Hayden reexamines catastrophe through the love stories she has come across. She introduces us to a mother in northeast Nigeria who risks everything to save her daughter from forced marriage to Boko Haram militants, and to a group of Syrian women who have tirelessly searched for their missing spouses and children, while launching a call for justice. We meet a couple separated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and read letters from the bereaved to the dead, still being written over a decade after the tsunami that devastated Japan. Through these stories, which crisscross the globe, from Uganda to Lebanon, Ghana, Rwanda and Iraq, she challenges us to reconsider what it means to be alive on this planet today. What if news was recounted through the prism of the actions and decisions people take for those they love? Would it become harder to dehumanize those who seem different to us? This Is Also a Love Story dares us to recognize how innate generosity and self-sacrifice can be found in even the most difficult of times, and--as a result--to question what might be needed to create a better world. -- Provided by the publisher.

Contents:

Prologue

Ukraine: A wartime Christmas

Rwanda: Forming new families

Iraq: Secret weddings

Uganda: Radical forgiveness

Ghana: Love under siege

Nigeria: Motherly love and acts of bravery

Lebanon: Crimes in the name of love

Syria: A quest for justice

Japan: Love after death

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-284).

ISBN:

9781668034620

166803462X

OCLC:

1523194812

Publisher Number:

90104714742