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How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair

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emotional informative tense medium-paced

4.5


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challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.75


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challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.75


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dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

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adventurous dark emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0


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3.5


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challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

5.0


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challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

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salemander's review against another edition

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5.0

every single word of this book was so beautifully thought out. such a heart wrenching story that was so poetically told and one of the realest portrayals of the struggle of forgiveness and the aftermath of abuse. 

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emotional reflective medium-paced

3.5

The writing was very well done and I really enjoyed learning more about Rastafari and the ways in which Sinclair navigated her family life. Making connections between the colonial past and present of Jamaica, the abusive control exacted by her father, and the long line of women who persevered and carried her was very well done. I did think it was fairly repetitive and slow, I most enjoyed the first few chapters and the last because that’s where she was able to round up and bring together her ideas. 

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