"This is a moving, intimate debut that surprised me, challenged me, and lingered well beyond the final page. Three Walled World is a book you don’t rush through—even when you can’t put it down." —Alan Locher, The Locher Room
"Subdued yet incisive, Three Walled World reveals the complex interior of a girl growing up in the glow of the studio lights, navigating grief, visibility, and self-invention. Capshaw writes with a tenderness sharpened by truth." —Stephanie Valente, author of Internet Girlfriend
"In Three Walled World, Ellery Capshaw takes us behind the scenes of her childhood, where she has the gift to 'chameleon into any name, any experience that lived between lines.' This tender, haunting memoir defies genre, and transports us to childhood bedrooms, daybreak car rides, inedible feasts, and the bottom of an empty bottle, perfecting her performance while we watch her discover that there's no script for the grief we feel right alongside her." —Lisa Mangini author of Ambivalent Nymph
"Ellery Capshaw’s Three Walled World is a memoir-in verse that confronts grief head-on. It is an elegy for a lost father and lost childhood. Retracing Capshaw’s own experience of being a child actor on a long-running Soap, the book’s personal narrative opens unto philosophical questions. One of the most enduring is what happens to the real self when we wear a mask too long. Also confronting addiction, Capshaw yet refuses to sound only loss. The story’s arc becomes one of recovery and rebirth. With its piercingly honest voice, Capshaw’s debut will stay with you, long after you close the book." —Shara McCallum, author of Madwoman and Behold
