Sally Hayden - THIS IS ALSO A LOVE STORY

Brazos welcomes Sally Hayden in-store on Thursday, October 15 at 6:30 p.m. Sally will be in conversation with Dr. Seema Jilani. We live in an era defined by crisis - be it war and displacement, climate collapse, or escalating inequality. The author and international correspondent Sally Hayden has spent her career covering some of the darkest moments of our time. But even in the face of unimaginable adversity, she has witnessed the love and care of everyday people.In her new book, This is Also a Love Story, Hayden poses the question, what if news was recounted through the prism of empathy, courage, hope, and love? Crisscrossing the globe, from Uganda to Lebanon, Rwanda to Iraq, the people she encounters include a couple separated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a Japanese man with an ingenious way to help people grieving, and a group of Syrian women searching tirelessly for their missing spouses and children. Through their stories, This Is Also a Love Story dares us to recognize how innate generosity and self-sacrifice can be found in even the most difficult of times, and - as a result - to question what might be needed to create a better world. Sally Hayden is an award-winning author, photographer and journalist, who has reported across Europe, Africa and the Middle East. This Is Also a Love Story: A Reporter's Search for Goodness in a Cruel World'is Sally’s second book, published by Scribner in June 2026. Her first book, My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route - about human rights abuses on Europe's borders - won the 2022 Orwell Prize for Political Writing; the An Post Irish Book of the Year Award; the Michel Déon Prize; Il Premio Terzani; and was shortlisted for the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism and the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, among others. She was named overall 'journalist of the year' at the Irish Journalism Awards in 2023 and 2025, and is currently based in Lebanon.Seema Jilani is a pediatric hospitalist at Texas Children’s Hospital and has worked in war zones for over twenty years, including on refugee rescue boats off the coast of Libya, in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, Gaza and the West Bank, and postwar Bosnia. She has worked on medical evacuation flights for critically ill children and also in pediatric palliative care. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, BBC, NPR, PBS, LitHub and The Guardian, among other publications. She is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.