How to Say Babylon: A Memoir | Safiya Sinclair

National Book Critics Circle Award WinnerA New York Times Notable BookBest Book of the Year for The Washington Post* The New Yorker * Time * The Atlantic * Los Angeles Times * NPR * Harper's Bazaar * Vulture * Town & Country * San Francisco Chronicle * Christian Science Monitor * Mother Jones * Barack ObamaA Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick   "Impossible to put down...Each lyrical line sings and soars, freeing the reader as it did the writer." --People   With echoes of Educated and The Glass Castle, How to Say Babylon is a "lushly observed and keenly reflective chronicle" (The Washington Post), brilliantly recounting the author's struggle to break free of her rigid religious upbringing and navigate the world on her own terms.   Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair's father, a volatile reggae musician and a militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, was obsessed with the ever-present threat of the corrupting evils of the Western world outside their home, and worr