Carvell Wallace’s new memoir, Another Word for Love, arrives with great beauty, teeth and vulnerability ... Each anecdote continues to move the reader and implore us all to remember to connect ... This book is funny and heartbreaking, religiously vivid and lovingly open.
Wallace’s aesthetic appreciation of language echoes in poetic sentences that craft metaphor with ease and wrap the reader in an evocative cocoon of powerful witnessing ... Hopefully, this captivating memoir is a promise of more work to come.
Wallace’s lyrical eye, sharpened to every detail, lends rhythmic cohesion to a series of events ... Wallace is unabashed about and humbled by the embodied human condition and the human longing for authentic connection, lending richness and vulnerability to the link between a writer and his readers. Ultimately, this is an intricate and exhilarating memoir—heartbreaking, humbling, and hopeful.
What elevates the narrative is Wallace’s capacity for forgiveness and his virtuosic—but never indulgent—prose. This profoundly compassionate volume hugs the reader tightly and doesn’t let go.
