The I Index

Another Word for Love: A Memoir

Top of the pile

91

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

90/100

Critics

91/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Carvell Wallace

Publisher:

MCD

Date:

May 14, 2024

A meditation on healing, told through the lenses of justice, sex, love, family, and death, by journalist and podcaster Carvell Wallace.

What The Reviewers Say

James Ijames,
The New York Times Book Review
Carvell Wallace’s new memoir, Another Word for Love, arrives with great beauty, teeth and vulnerability.
Dolen Perkins-Valdez,
The San Francisco Chronicle
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.
Natalia Berry,
BookPage
Wallace is a brilliant storyteller and masterful student in the language of love.

Kirkus
Wallace’s lyrical eye, sharpened to every detail, lends rhythmic cohesion to a series of events.