How to Say Babylon - Safiya Sinclair

Written By Mona Angéline
Safiya Sinclair - How to Say Babylon

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This memoir truly stands out for me. For one, I can't think of another book that talks about Rastafarianism and the cult-like oppression it can bring about in the form of family abuse. But it's not just this unique topic that grabbed my attention - it's the author's powerful, beautiful writing, relaying her story, her pain, her emotions, her growth, her ultimate freedom so well. I find myself in many of her passages, and yet, our stories are so different.

Thank you Safiya Sinclair for putting your words on these pages. They're extraordinary.

Mona Angéline

Mona Angéline is an unapologetically vulnerable writer, reader, book reviewer, artist, athlete, and scientist. She honors the creatively unconventional, the authentically "other". She shares her emotions because the world tends to hide theirs. She is a new writer, but her work was recently accepted in Flash Fiction Magazine, Grand Dame Literary, tiny wren lit, Down in the Dirt Magazine, The Viridian Door, The Machine, Whisky Blot Magazine, and The Academy of Mind and Heart. She loves to review books and has written them for the /tƐmz/ Review, the Ampersand Review, and the Beakful Litblog. Sooner or later she will have to condense this list… Mona is also a regular guest editor for scientific journals although she doesn't use a pen name when her engineering PhD degree is involved. She lives bicoastally in Santa Cruz, California, and in New York and savors life despite, or maybe because of, her significant struggles with chronic illness and mild disability. Learn about her musings at creativerunnings.com. Follow her on Instagram under @creativerunnings and on Twitter at @creativerunning.

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