by Safiya Sinclair
Award-winning poet Safiya Sinclair writes of her childhood in Jamaica in a Rastafarian family. Despite poverty and being part of a despised minority religion, Sinclair remembers a vivid, joyful early childhood, until her father’s increasing paranoia, contempt for outsiders – known as “Babylon,” and control of his family grew unbearable. A beautifully written coming-of-age memoir, a reminder that both oppression and resilience can be passed down, and inter-generational trauma can be stopped.
reviewed by Leah R.
