SheReaders Book Club

📍 Next Door Bar & Grill — Pittsford, NY
📆 Tuesday, February 3, 2026
⏰ 4:00–6:00 PM

Join SheReaders Book Club for a cozy, casual Nomikai-style happy hour meetup at Next Door by Wegmans in Pittsford, NY!

If you’ve been craving a relaxed chance to connect with other women who love books, this is the perfect winter pick-me-up.

We’ll gather for conversation, new friendships, literary chatter, and delicious bites from Next Door’s Nomikai menu. Take a peek at what they offer here: 👉 https://www.wegmansnextdoor.com/rochester-new-york/menu/nomikai-menu/

Whether you’re a longtime SheReader or brand new to the group, you’re welcome to join us. No book prep required—just come as you are to enjoy some delicious food and the good company of other SheReaders.

✨ What to Expect

• Fun, informal conversation
• A welcoming group of women who love reading
• Great food + drink specials
• A perfect midwinter mood boost

RSVP so we know to save you a seat!
We can’t wait to see you there.

Goodreads Choice Award
Nominee for Readers' Favorite Memoir & Autobiography (2023)

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.

Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair’s father, a volatile reggae musician and militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, became obsessed with her purity, in particular, with the threat of what Rastas call Babylon, the immoral and corrupting influences of the Western world outside their home. He worried that womanhood would make Safiya and her sisters morally weak and impure, and believed a woman’s highest virtue was her obedience.

In an effort to keep Babylon outside the gate, he forbade almost everything. In place of pants, the women in her family were made to wear long skirts and dresses to cover their arms and legs, head wraps to cover their hair, no make-up, no jewelry, no opinions, no friends. Safiya’s mother, while loyal to her father, nonetheless gave Safiya and her siblings the gift of books, including poetry, to which Safiya latched on for dear life. And as Safiya watched her mother struggle voicelessly for years under housework and the rigidity of her father’s beliefs, she increasingly used her education as a sharp tool with which to find her voice and break free. Inevitably, with her rebellion comes clashes with her father, whose rage and paranoia explodes in increasing violence. As Safiya’s voice grows, lyrically and poetically, a collision course is set between them.

How to Say Babylon is Sinclair’s reckoning with the culture that initially nourished but ultimately sought to silence her; it is her reckoning with patriarchy and tradition, and the legacy of colonialism in Jamaica. Rich in lyricism and language only a poet could evoke, How to Say Babylon is both a universal story of a woman finding her own power and a unique glimpse into a rarefied world we may know how to name, Rastafari, but one we know little about.'