Summary

Preface: As a child, the importance of love was clear to bell hooks because she experienced its absence. She now knows that we can find the love we long for, but only if we let go of the grief of losing love in the past. On a cultural level, bell hooks is also stunned and saddened by how, as a nation, we have turned away from love. This book is a call for a return to love.

Introduction: A piece of graffiti speaks strongly to bell hooks. It reads: "The search for love continues even in the face of great odds" (15). Though she is going through a difficult break up at the time, hooks is heartened by the idea that love can be found. hooks laments the current cynical cultural ethos that derides love as meaningless or irrelevant. hooks advocates for a...