Status Updates From How to Say Babylon

"Whatever one Rasta man may think of his daughter also became my father's view, which became the other man's view of his daughter and so on.
They cultivated a fragile ecosystem of beliefs, each trying to outdo the other for who was most militant, whose daughter was most humble."

"I looked out the window and reached for the future. There, my hopes hardened into something beautiful again; a kaleidoscope of possible selves beckoning and disappearing at the same time: one girl moving through a splintered world that branched into herself and herself and herself."