Another Word for Love: A Memoir [Paperback]

A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for healing.

InAnother Word for Love, Carvell Wallace excavates layers of his own history, situated in the struggles and beauty of growing up Black and queer in America.

Wallace is an award-winning journalist who has built his career on writing unforgettable profiles, bringing a provocative and engaged sensitivity to his subjects. Now he turns the focus on himself, examining his own life and the circumstances that frame itto make sense of seeking refuge from homelessness with a young single mother, living in a ghostly white Pennsylvania town, becoming a partner and parent, raising two teenagers in what feels like a collapsing world.

With courage, vulnerability, and a remarkable expansiveness of spiritnot to mention a thrilling, and unrivaled, storytelling verveAnother Word for Lovemakes an irresistible case for life, healing, the fullness of our humanity, and, of course, love. It could be called a theory of life itselfa theory of being that will leave you open to the wonder of the world.

Carvell Wallacegrew up between Southwestern PA, Washington DC, and Los Angeles. He attended Tisch School for the Arts and worked as a stage actor before spending fifteen years in direct service youth non-profits. He has covered arts, entertainment, music, culture, race, sports, and parenting forThe New York Times Magazine,The New Yorker,Slate,GQ,Pitchfork, MTV Newsand others. As a podcast host, he has been nominated for a Peabody and won a Kaleidoscope Award and was theSlateparenting advice columnist. He is the co-author of theNew York Timesbest-selling basketball memoirThe Sixth Manwith Andre Iguodala. He lives in Oakland and has two adult children, a comfortable couch, and a lot of plants.

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