Presentation & Signing: Combat Love by Alisyn Camerota

Sat Dec 06 2025 at 05:00 pm to 06:30 pm UTC-05:00

Asbury Book Cooperative | Asbury Park

Asbury Book Cooperative
Publisher/HostAsbury Book Cooperative
Presentation & Signing: Combat Love by Alisyn Camerota Join us for a presentation and signing with Alisyn Camerota in conversation with Nick Corasaniti presenting COMBAT LOVE.
About this Event

Presentation and signing with Alisyn Camerota presenting her newest title COMBAT LOVE. This presentation will be in conversation with one of our favorites, Nick Corasaniti!

The $5 ticket is an RSVP and you will recieve a $5 coupon at the time of the event. The $20 ticket includes your RSVP and a BOOK.

Hope to see you there!

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About the Book:

Combat Love is Alisyn Camerota's story of longing for stability and attachment as the foundation of her family crumbled. Set on the Jersey Shore in the free-range 1980s, Camerota is thirteen when she finds the belonging she craves courtesy of a local punk rock band named Shrapnel and their diehard fans. Combat Love chronicles Camerota’s near-misses and misadventures at gritty clubs like CBGB, coupled with the sex, drugs and punk rock of that era. By the time Camerota leaves home at sixteen, it feels like home had left her long ago. Combat Love is also the story of two women, mother and daughter, entangled then pulled apart, each searching for identity and wholeness. With her signature wit and hard-won wisdom, Camerota captures the raw emotions and high stakes of our teenage years, walking the line between shelter and risk, nurture and neglect, trauma and healing. Camerota retraces her steps down a precarious path toward her big dream of becoming a TV reporter. Compelling, heart-wrenching, funny, and pulse-pounding, Combat Love is an anthem of hope and resilience for anyone who’s ever searched for that elusive place called home.


About the Author:

Alisyn Camerota is a journalist, author, anchor and correspondent for CNN. In her three decades in journalism, Camerota has earned numerous awards, including two EMMYS, for coverage of George Floyd’s M**der and Roger Stone’s arrest. She also received the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award for her breaking news coverage of Hurricane Maria’s impact on Puerto Rico and a duPont-Columbia Award for her coverage of Jamal Khashoggi’s M**der. Since joining CNN in 2014, Alisyn has been on the ground for the most pressing news events, including deadly hurricanes, the Paris and Brussels terror attacks, and the Uvalde and Parkland school shootings. In covering the 2016 and 2020 president elections, Alisyn’s Voter Panels were must-see viral moments. As a leading voice in the #MeToo movement, Alisyn helped to provide the #SilenceBreakers with a platform to tell their stories.
Alisyn’s debut novel, Amanda Wakes Up, was selected by National Public Radio as one of the best books of 2017, and by Oprah Magazine as “a must read.”


About the Mediator:

Nick Corasaniti is a domestic correspondent covering national politics for the New York Times. He has covered four presidential cycles, along with countless congressional, gubernatorial and mayoral races in more than 15 years at the Times. He was once the Times’s Jersey correspondent, tracking the politics, policy, people, trains, beaches, and eccentricities that give the Garden State its charm. He is a born and raised—and exceptionally proud—New Jerseyan, who splits his time between Asbury Park and Brooklyn.

Event Venue

Asbury Book Cooperative, 644A Cookman Avenue, Asbury Park, United States

Tickets

USD 7.18 to USD 23.18

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