Safiya Sinclair's memoir "How to Say Babylon" highlights her experience growing up in Jamaica under the strict rule of her Rastafarian father and her fight to find her own voice. Sinclair's childhood was filled with structure that controlled the women of her house in many ways — from the way they dressed, to the friends they kept, to the opinions they were allowed to share. When Sinclair's mother gifted her a poetry collection, it was art that kept Sinclair inspired under the rigid rules of her childhood and would become the anchor that grounded her in her pursuit of higher education and career. Sinclair's vulnerable storytelling cuts to the core of a woman searching for agency, kept afloat by her passion for poetry.
Release date: Oct. 3
