How to Say Babylon

A Memoir

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<b>National Book Critics Circle Award Winner</b><br> <b>A <i>New York Times </i>Notable Book</b><br> <b><b>A</b><b> Read with Jenna <i>Today</i> Show Book Club Pick!</b></b><br> <b>A Best Book of 2023 by the <i>New York Times</i>, <i>Time</i>, <i>The Washington Post</i>, <i>Vulture</i>, <i>Shelf Awareness</i>, <i>Goodreads</i>, <i>Esquire</i>, <i>The Atlantic</i>, NPR, and Barack Obama</b><br> <br><b><b>With echoes of <i>Educated </i>and <i>Born a Crime</i>, <i>How to Say Babylon</i> 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.</b></b><br><br>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 particular, with the threat of what Rastas call Babylon, the immoral and corrupting influences of the Western world outside their home. He worried that womanhood would make Safiya and her sisters morally weak and impure, and believed a woman's highest virtue was her obedience.<br> <br>In an effort to keep Babylon outside the gate, he forbade almost everything. In place of pants, the women in her family were made to wear long skirts and dresses to cover their arms and legs, head wraps to cover their hair, no make-up, no jewelry, no opinions, no friends. Safiya's mother, while loyal to her father, nonetheless gave Safiya and her siblings the gift of books, including poetry, to which Safiya latched on for dear life. And as Safiya watched her mother struggle voicelessly for years under housework and the rigidity of her father's beliefs, she increasingly used her education as a sharp tool with which to find her voice and break free. Inevitably, with her rebellion comes clashes with her father, whose rage and paranoia explodes in increasing violence. As Safiya's voice grows, lyrically and

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781668032220

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

228 x 158 x 27 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Verlag / Hersteller

Simon + Schuster LLC