A review by bookreviewswithkb
How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense

5.0

thank you @simonbooks for the review copy!

i have been waiting to love a book this hard for awhile!!! this book moved me to my CORE. Sinclair is a phenomenal writer, a beautiful poet. her writing is lyrical and haunting, her heart bleeds onto each page. the way she forms words and sentences allowed me to not only read, but to feel and feel deeply and that is what i want every time i open a book. i got lost in not only the pain and the hurt, but in the healing, in the forgiveness, in the wading through the waves of sorrow and joy and love and redemption. i truly cannot recommend this memoir enough 

“there was more than one way to be lost. more than one way to be saved. while my mother had saved me from the waves and gave me breath, my father had tried to save me only by suffocation. with ever increasing strictures, with incense smoke, with fire. both had wanted better for me, but only one of them would protect me in the end.”