Simon & Schuster First Year Reading Catalog 2023-2024
Featured Titles
How to Say Babylon
A Memoir
Themes: Coming-of-Age, African American
With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s struggle to break free of her rigid Rastafarian upbringing, ruled by her father’s strict patriarchal views and repressive control of her childhood, to find her own voice as a woman and poet.
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A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
Themes: Society, Identity, Overcoming Life's Challenges
From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling mother barely making ends meet as a housecleaner—a gripping memoir about college, motherhood, poverty, and life after Maid.
Social Change, Leadership, & Education