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How to say Babylon : a Jamaican memoir / by Safiya Sinclair.

How to say Babylon : a Jamaican memoir / by Safiya Sinclair.
How to say Babylon :
"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 Safiya's 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 woman's determination to live life on her own terms."--Back cover.

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ISBN 9780008491291 (paperback)
Author Sinclair, Safiya
Title How to say Babylon : a Jamaican memoir / by Safiya Sinclair.
Publication details London : 4th Estate, 2023.
Pagination etc. x, 335 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary Note "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 Safiya's 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 woman's determination to live life on her own terms."--Back cover.
Subject Sinclair, Safiya
Poets -- United States -- Biography
Rastafarians -- Biography
Jamaicans -- Biography
Autobiographies
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