How to say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair

How to Say Babylon is a stunning memoir of familial dysfunction centered on the author, Safiya Sinclair, living in Jamaica under the rule of her authoritarian father. He was a reggae musician and militant adherent to a strict Rastafarism. He worried that womanhood would make Safiya and her sisters morally weak and impure, and believed a woman’s highest virtue was her obedience.

Safiya Sinclair will try to find her own voice as a woman and poet.

Born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Safiya Sinclair is famous for poems which have appeared in Poetry, the Kenyon Review, Boston Review, Gulf Coast, the Gettysburg Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere.