Oprah Winfrey has selected a beautiful book for her book club: Love Warrior, a memoir by Glennon Doyle Melton, author, motivational speaker and founder of the online community Momastery.
"You're going to absolutely love this book and the spirit of it. It's daring and it's raw and it's filled with a lot of naked, and I do mean naked, truths." Winfrey made the announcement in a video on her website.
Glennon says she was compelled to write after the fateful therapy session in which she learned that her husband had been unfaithful.
“I got to my car and I sat down in my minivan and I typed out an email to my sister. It said, ‘I’ve never been in greater pain than I am right now,’” Glennon says.
“And what I’ve learned about pain is that it is not to be numbed and it is not to be ignored and it is not to be wasted. I’m going to use every bit of this pain as fuel.”
Oprah adds, you don’t have to be in a similar situation to find Love Warrior relatable and powerful. “You’re going to absolutely love this book and the spirit of it, whether you’re married or single, whether you’re a mom or not,”
“All women are going to see themselves in these pages.”
This is the second pick this year for Oprah's Book Club. In August, she selected Colson Whitehead's novel The Underground Railroad, which quickly shot up bestseller lists. A work of serious fiction about slavery that is also a timely commentary on being black in America, the book also landed on President Obama's reading list.