Safiya Sinclair
How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir
How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir
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In her memoir, How to Say Babylon, Safiya Sinclair explores her family's history and her own journey of resilience and independence. She grew up in Montego Bay, Jamaica, with her father, a strict Rastafari believer who forbade her from doing anything outside of home and school. Despite the restrictions, Sinclair's imagination flourished, and she eventually decided to leave home to pursue her dreams.
Format: Hardback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 03 October 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
‘Dazzling. Potent. Vital TARA WESTOVER
‘To read it is to believe that words can save MARLON JAMES
‘I adored this book … Unforgettable,heartbreaking and heartwarming ELIF SHAFAK
An extraordinary and inspiring memoir of family,education and resilience,from award-winning poet Safiya Sinclair.
There was more than one way to be lost,more than one way to be saved.
Born in Montego Bay,Jamaica,where luxury hotels line pristine white sand beaches,Safiya Sinclair grew up guarding herself against an ever-present threat.
Her father,a volatile reggae musician and strict believer in a militant sect of Rastafari,railed against Babylon,the corrupting influence of the immoral Western world just beyond their gate.
To protect the purity of the women in their family he forbade almost everything: nowhere but home and school,no friends but this family and no future but this path.
Her mother did what she could to bring joy to her children with books and poetry.
But as Safiyas imagination reached beyond its restrictive borders,her burgeoning independence brought with it ever greater clashes with her father.
Soon she realised that if she was to live at all,she had to find some way to leave home.
But how? In seeking to understand the past of her family,Safiya Sinclair takes readers inside a world that is little understood by those outside it and offers an astonishing personal reckoning.
How to Say Babylon is an unforgettable story of a young womans determination to live life on her own terms.
‘Electrifying Observer ‘A story about hope,imagination and resilience Guardian ‘An essential memoir Jesmyn Ward,author of Sing,Unburied,Sing ‘Heart-warming,tender and fierce Lily Dunn,author of Sins .
Weight: 560g
Dimension: 241 x 161 x 32 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780008491284
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