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How to Say Babylon : A Memoir by Safiya Sinclair (2024, Trade Paperback)

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How to Say Babylon: A Memoir by Sinclair, Safiya [Paperback]

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PublisherSimon & Schuster

ISBN-101982132345

ISBN-139781982132347

eBay Product ID (ePID)18065120110

Product Key Features

Book TitleHow to Say Babylon : a Memoir

Number of Pages352 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2024

TopicCultural Heritage, Personal Memoirs, Women's Studies

GenreSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorSafiya Sinclair

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight9.4 Oz

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width5.5 in

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ReviewsHow to Say Babylon is a poet's memoir, a daughter's lyric, a love letter, a rebellion, and an incantation. From the material of history and mythology, both personal and political, Safiya Sinclair has gorgeously and lovingly assembled a story with radiant transformative power. I couldn't put it down. --Nadia Owusu, author of Aftershocks

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal818/.6 B

SynopsisThroughout her childhood in Jamaica, Safiya Sinclair's father, a volatile reggae musician and a militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, was obsessed with "Babylon," the ever-present threat of the corrupting evils of the Western world outside their home, and worried that womanhood would make Safiya and her sisters morally weak and impure. For him, a woman's highest virtue was her obedience. Safiya's extraordinary mother, though loyal to her father, gave her the one gift she knew would take Safiya beyond the stretch of beach and mountains their family called home: a world of books, knowledge, and education she conjured almost out of thin air. When she introduced Safiya to poetry, Safiya's voice awakened. As she watched her mother struggle voicelessly for years under relentless domesticity, Safiya's rebellion against her father's rules set her on an inevitable collision course with him. Her education became the sharp tool to hone her own poetic voice and carve her path to liberation. Rich in emotion and page-turning drama, How to Say Babylon is "a melodious wave of memories" (NPR) of a woman finding her own power., National Book Critics Circle Award Winner A New York Times Notable Book Best Book of the Year for The Washington Post* The New Yorker * Time * The Atlantic * Los Angeles Times * NPR * Harper's Bazaar * Vulture * Town & Country * San Francisco Chronicle * Christian Science Monitor * Mother Jones * Barack Obama A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick "Impossible to put down...Each lyrical line sings and soars, freeing the reader as it did the writer." -- People With echoes of Educated and The Glass Castle , How to Say Babylon is a "lushly observed and keenly reflective chronicle" ( The Washington Post ), brilliantly recounting the author's struggle to break free of her rigid religious upbringing and navigate the world on her own terms. Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair's father, a volatile reggae musician and a militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, was obsessed with the ever-present threat of the corrupting evils of the Western world outside their home, and worried that womanhood would make Safiya and her sisters morally weak and impure. For him, a woman's highest virtue was her obedience. Safiya's extraordinary mother, though loyal to her father, gave her the one gift she knew would take Safiya beyond the stretch of beach and mountains in Jamaica their family called home: a world of books, knowledge, and education she conjured almost out of thin air. When she introduced Safiya to poetry, Safiya's voice awakened. As she watched her mother struggle voicelessly for years under relentless domesticity, Safiya's rebellion against her father's rules set her on an inevitable collision course with him. Her education became the sharp tool to hone her own poetic voice and carve her path to liberation. Rich in emotion and page-turning drama, How to Say Babylon is "a melodious wave of memories" of a woman finding her own power (NPR).

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