How to Say Babylon: A Memoir

How to Say Babylon: A MemoirNational Book Critics Circle Award Winner A New York Times Notable Book Best Book of the Year for The Washington Post* The New Yorker * Time * The Atlantic * Los Angeles Times * NPR * Harpers Bazaar * Vulture * Town & Country * San Francisco Chronicle * Christian Science Monitor * Mother Jones * Barack Obama A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick Impossible to put down Each lyrical line sings and soars, freeing the reader as it did the writer.

revelations unfold among friends old and new

1950s Philadelphia: fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college

Fearing that her child is predestined to endure the same debilitating depression that has marked her own life

And after being with Jeremiah for the last two years

Pamela Schumacher

and realized her vision of a peaceful community in northern California based on her newly founded faith

FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME AND THE NIGHT WE LOST HIM

and even friends of their enslavers

from pervasive water shortage to masses of vagabonds who will do anything to live to see another day

darkly comic

Over and over

and the tragic death of an ideal