How to Say Babylon A Memoir
eBook - 2023
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner A New York Times Notable Book A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! A Best Book of 2023 by the New York Times, Time, The Washington Post, Vulture, Shelf Awareness, Goodreads, Esquire, The Atlantic, NPR, and Barack Obama With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author's struggle to break free of her rigid Rastafarian upbringing, ruled by her father's strict patriarchal views and repressive control of her childhood, to find her own voice as a woman and poet.Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair's father, a volatile reggae musician and militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, became obsessed with her purity, in particula...r, with the threat of what Rastas call Babylon, the immoral and corrupting influences of...
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- English
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File Size | 5 GB |
ISBN | 9781982132354 |
Release Date | 10/3/2023 |
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ASIN | B0BHTL8PQX |
Release Date | 10/3/2023 |
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ISBN | 9781982132354 |
Release Date | 10/3/2023 |