By Safire R. Sostre ·Updated March 7, 2024
“Who told you you should be free? I did,” award-winning poet, journalist and professor Shayla Lawson asserts in their latest nonfiction book, How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir. The essay collection takes readers on an intimate journey of self-discovery, as Lawson finds love, community, healing and freedom through their globetrotting experiences.
The memoir is eloquently written and deeply personal, with