LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
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
Arvustused
An electrifying memoir OBSERVER
A story about hope, imagination and resilience GUARDIAN
'Vivid and empowering' GILLIAN ANDERSON
Heart-stoppingly gripping BERNARDINE EVARISTO
Dazzling TARA WESTOVER
Glimmering laced with poetic voice TIME
Clear-eyed and courageous GUARDIAN
A breathless, scorching memoir NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Electrifying SPECTATOR
Lushly observed WASHINGTON POST
Stirring' ELLE
To read it is to believe that words can save MARLON JAMES
Unforgettable, mesmerising, heartbreaking and heartwarming' ELIF SHAFAK
Powerful moving EVENING STANDARD
Sinclair's lush, lyrical language makes everything feel alive RAVEN LEILANI
A memoir of liberation IRISH TIMES
Stunningly written iNEWS
An instant contemporary Caribbean classic MONIQUE ROFFEY
Atmospheric and completely absorbing DIANA EVANS
Essential JESMYN WARD
Gut-wrenching, soul-stirring, electrifying NICOLE DENNIS-BENN
Immersive, imagistic, honest RAYMOND ANTROBUS
Destined to become a feminist classic LISA ALLEN-AGOSTINI
Heart-warming, tender and fierce LILY DUNN
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A Jamaican memoir the inspiring memoir shortlisted for the Womens Prize for Non-Fiction 2024
Safiya Sinclair was born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica. She is the author of Cannibal, winner of a Whiting Writers Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Metcalf Award in Literature, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry, and the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Cannibal was selected as one of the American Library Associations Notable Books of the Year, was a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award and the Seamus Heaney First Book Award in the UK, and was longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, The Nation, Poetry and elsewhere. She is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Arizona State University.