-Dazzling. Potent. Vital- TARA WESTOVER-To read it is to believe that words can save- MARLON JAMES-I adored this book - Unforgettable, heartbreaking and heartwarming- ELIF SHAFAK-A breathless, scorching memoir of a girlhood-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWAn extraordinary and inspiring memoir of family, education and resilience, from award-winning poet Safiya Sinclair.There was more than one way to be lost, more than one way to be saved.Born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, where luxury hotels line pristine white sand beaches, Safiya Sinclair grew up guarding herself against an ever-present threat. Her father, a volatile reggae musician and strict believer in a militant sect of Rastafari, railed against Babylon, the corrupting influence of the immoral Western world just beyond their gate. To protect the purity of the women in their family he forbade almost everything: nowhere but home and school, no friends but this family and no future but this path.Her mother did what she could to bring joy to her
