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    Another Word for Love: A Memoir
    Another Word for Love: A Memoir
    Another Word for Love: A Memoir
    Audiobook6 hours

    Another Word for Love: A Memoir

    Written by Carvell Wallace

    Narrated by Carvell Wallace

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    About this audiobook

    This program is read by the author.

    “Carvell Wallace narrates his beautiful memoir with poignant urgency-- and a whole lot of love…His voice, like his prose, has a poetic cadence. At times, his narration seems to fly, reaching higher and higher before culminating in an emotional crescendo.”—AudioFile

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

    In Another 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 it—to 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 spirit—not to mention a thrilling, and unrivaled, storytelling verve—Another Word for Love makes an irresistible case for life, healing, the fullness of our humanity, and, of course, love. It could be called a theory of life itself—a theory of being that will leave you open to the wonder of the world.

    A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

    Editor's Note

    Transformative journey…

    An award-winning journalist looks inward in this debut memoir, which Kirkus calls “exquisite” and “soulful.” From personal tales of poverty to police brutality in America, Wallace examines the experiences that shaped his views on love and masculinity, and how getting sober and becoming a parent altered his beliefs about healthy intimacy and empathy. This book lays bare the painful but transformative journey of a queer Black man.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateMay 14, 2024
    ISBN9781250350749
    Another Word for Love: A Memoir
    Author

    Carvell Wallace

    Carvell Wallace grew 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 for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Slate, GQ, Pitchfork, MTV News and others. As a podcast host, he has been nominated for a Peabody and won a Kaleidoscope Award and was the Slate parenting advice columnist. He is the co-author of the New York Times best-selling basketball memoir The Sixth Man with Andre Iguodala. He lives in Oakland and has two adult children, a comfortable couch, and a lot of plants.

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      Heartbreaking at times but such a thoughtful memoir loved it!