Daniel. Jones

Exploring Life's Most Mystifying Subject (with the Help of 50,000 Strangers)





Love. We want it. We need it. We pay it homage with songs and poems and great works of art. And when we lose it, there's no pain as intense or excruciating. For centuries we've been trying to figure it out, control it, or just get better at it. As the editor of a column about love for the New York Times, Daniel Jones reads thousands of stories about people's intimate relationships--the ones that soar, crash, or hum along, from the bizarre to the supposedly "normal." It's possible that he's read more true love stories than anyone on earth. In Love Illuminated, he teases apart this mystifying emotion that thrills, crushes, and sustains.



Drawing from the 50,000 stories that have crossed his desk over the past decade, Jones explores ten aspects of love--pursuit, destiny, vulnerability, connection, trust, practicality, monotony, infidelity, loyalty, and wisdom--and creates a lively, funny and enlightening journey through this universal human experience that jangles the head, and stirs the heart. As Jones explains, "Love is about curiosity, not confidence. It's about tossing oneself overboard into the wild seas, not remaining safely on deck." In Love Illuminated, he takes us overboard and plunges us into love in all its contradictions and complexities, offering glimmers of understanding and comforts of shared experience.

 

 

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