u/jthorp17

Read this 2 years ago and I’m still thinking about it, so I plan to reread it this summer. Going into it I knew nothing about Rastafarian culture outside of Bob Marley. It really goes into how the Rastafarian religion affected every aspect of her upbringing and Jamaican society as a whole. Her escape through her passion of poetry also has you cheering her on throughout her story.

If you love reading about different cultures this is a great read. Really felt like it gave me a good perspective of what it was like to grow up in a strict Rastafarian family in Jamaica.