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How to Say Babylon

Safiya Sinclair

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One of the most beautifully written memoirs I’ve ever read. 
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Of the four sections, the first two were shaped more like fiction. I wish she had saved the last two sections to be fleshed out, edited down, and shaped into a second volume, if at all. She still doesn't have enough distance from the material to fully handle it. 
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Growing in strict abusive family.  Generational trauma.