Communion, bell hooks
Communion, bell hooks
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Communion
The Female Search for Love

Author: bell hooks

Narrator: January LaVoy

Unabridged: 6 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/14/2025

Synopsis

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER by the author of All About Love!“When truth teller and careful writer bell hooks offers a book, I like to be standing at the bookshop when it opens.” –Maya AngelouIntimate, 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 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 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.
Part of the groundbreaking "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy that includes All About Love and SalvationA grounding and inspirational look at the role of love in our daily lives.A must read for the modern woman by one of our most beloved authors and cultural critics.

About bell hooks

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Polly on April 03, 2009

I loved this book. I love bell hooks in general, but happened to read this book at exactly the right time in my life so that it was a profound and transformative experience; it is always gratifying to see my own philosophy laid out in print with articulate grace, and "Communion" was deeply affirming......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on February 14, 2023

I liked this book even though I don’t think it was as groundbreaking or tightly argued as her books The Will to Change or All About Love. For the first 70% of Communion, I felt that bell hooks made several strong and interesting points about women, gender, and relationships: that women are taught to......more

Goodreads review by K on May 19, 2025

This book completely cracked me open and was a balm for me this week. I connected with this 20x more than I did All About Love and that is saying a lot. So oddly relevant to everything right now (divorce, friendship breakup, developing more confidence, moving) etc. bell writes with so much clarity i......more

Goodreads review by Miriam on June 13, 2022

Would def give this 3.5 stars. I read another review about Communion on here and the reviewer mentioned that this book was full of generalizations. I think that was my big issue. hooks would take something hyper specific from her own relationship and say “all women experience….” It happened so often......more

Goodreads review by Mighty Aphrodite on December 28, 2024

Sin da piccoli il nostro primo insopprimibile istinto è quello di cercare l’amore, di aggrapparci con forza e disperazione ai nostri genitori, spiando ogni loro mossa, ogni loro espressione, alla ricerca dei segni del loro affetto, della loro approvazione. Se siamo fortunati, questo amore, questa com......more

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