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How to Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir by Safiya Sinclair

22 reviews

ittywitty's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Confinement, Racial slurs, Racism, Abandonment, and Classism

Minor: Cancer

znvisser's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

Beautiful memoir that taught me a lot while drawing a picture of the authors life: Safiya Sinclair manages to interweave personal memories seamlessly with Jamaican and Rastafarian history, making her story a whole. Her childhood memories are detailed and lively, drawn poetically with childlike wonder, shamelessness and parental worship, after which you feel complexity grow and doubts creeping in as she gets older. Sinclair is so proficient with language and I loved taking this in through audio as well, because her voice is gorgeous and she had great melody to her storytelling.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Infertility, Racism, Self harm, Blood, Pregnancy, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Cancer, Death, Drug use, Miscarriage, and Racial slurs