How to Say Babylon: A Memoir

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How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair is a memoir that recounts her strict Rastafari upbringing in Jamaica and her journey to find freedom through writing. The story covers her family's dynamics, her struggles at private school, and her eventual escape from her father's oppressive control, achieving liberation through poetry and education. The book includes descriptions of child sexual abuse, child abuse, physical abuse, suicide and suicidal ideation, racism, misogyny, intimate partner violence, and grooming and predatory behavior.