Book jacket image for How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair

Simon & Schuster

9781982132330

STARRED REVIEW

How to Say Babylon

Safiya Sinclair’s memoir should be savored like the final sip of an expensive wine—with deference, realizing that a story of this magnitude comes along all too infrequently.

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Review of ‘How to Say Babylon’

With unparalleled lyricism and a command of language only a poet could possess, How to Say Babylon: A Memoir recounts Safiya Sinclair’s life as a Rastafarian child raised under the oppressive and patriarchal rule of her father. While providing a contextual background on Rastafari—a religious movement and cultural community many have heard of, but few…

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