thenotoriousmeg 's review for:

How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair

5.0

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Recommendations for this book followed me around for months, and I missed her by a few hours when she was doing a reading in Seattle where I was on vacation but I’m glad I finally got to read it. I read the first third with interest but not joy, it felt like we were bearing witness to her trauma and I dreaded each time I picked it up. But her dedication to and gift for poetry is miraculous, uplifting, and comforting, and I drank up the rest eagerly. Seeing Ms. Sinclair’s current-day flair for fashion is the icing on the cake for her recent success. I might actually buy a book of poetry after this!