Leslie Morgan Steiner

Crazy Love: a Memoir Leslie Morgan Steiner

Publisher Marketing: At twenty-two, Leslie Morgan Steiner seemed to have it all: a Harvard diploma, a glamorous job at "Seventeen" magazine, a downtown New York City apartment. Plus a handsome, funny, street-smart boyfriend who adored her. But behind her facade of success, this golden girl hid a dark secret. She d made a mistake shared by millions: She fell in love with the wrong person. At first Leslie and Conor seemed as perfect together as their fairy-tale wedding. Then came the fights she tried to ignore: He pushed her down the stairs of the house they bought together, poured coffee grinds over her hair as she dressed for a critical job interview, choked her during an argument, and threatened her with a gun. Several times he came close to making good on his threat to kill her. With each attack, Leslie lost another piece of herself. Gripping and utterly compelling, "Crazy Love" takes you inside the violent, devastating world of abusive love. Conor said he d been abused since he was a young boy, and love and rage danced intimately together in his psyche. Why didn t Leslie leave? She stayed because she loved him. Find out for yourself if she had fallen truly in love or into a psychological trap." Review Citations: Booklist 12/01/2008 pg. 6 (EAN 9780312377458, Hardcover) Library Journal 12/15/2008 pg. 137 (EAN 9780312377458, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2009 (EAN 9780312377458, Hardcover) People Weekly 04/06/2009 pg. 55 (EAN 9780312377458, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Steiner, Leslie Morgan Leslie Morgan Steiner is the editor of the highly acclaimed anthology Mommy Wars. She writes On Balance, the popular daily Washington Past online column about working motherhood. She is a frequent national television and radio guest on NBC s Today Show, The Diane Rehm Show on National Public Radio, MSNBC, Fox news and other programs. Steiner lives and works in Washington D. C. Contributor Bio:  Eby, Tanya Tanya Eby has been a voice-over artist for over a decade. She is an Audie-nominated and "AudioFile" Earphones Award winning narrator. Besides narrating, Tanya spends her time teaching creative writing classes at the collegiate level, blogging, and working on her own novels.