Love Illuminated

From the editor of the New York Times popular Modern Love column, the story of love from beginning to end (or not).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, theres no pain as intense or excruciating. For centuries weve 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 peoples intimate relationshipsthe ones that soar, crash, or hum along, from the bizarre to the supposedly normal. Its possible that hes 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 lovepursuit, destiny, vulnerability, connection, trust, practicality, monotony, infidelity, loyalty, and wisdomand creates a lively, funny and enlightening journey through this universal human experience that jangles the head and stirs the heart.