How To Say Babylon

An essential memoir’ Jesmyn Ward, author of Sing, Unburied, Sing

‘Heart-warming, tender and fierce’ Lily Dunn, author of Sins of My Father

‘One of the most gut-wrenching, soul-stirring, electrifying memoirs I’ve ever read’ Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Here Comes the Sun

‘Full of courage and poetry … How to Say Babylon has the power of truth telling’ Monique Roffey, author of The Mermaid of Black Conch

‘Atmospheric and completely absorbing, this is a fascinating story lushly told’ Diana Evans, author of A House for Alice

‘Sinclair possesses a rare gift … Every sentence sings’ Imani Perry, author of South to America

Safiya Sinclair was born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica. She is the author of Cannibal, winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award in Literature, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry, and the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Cannibal was selected as one of the American Library Association’s Notable Books of the Year, was a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award and the Seamus Heaney First Book Award in the UK, and was longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, The Nation, Poetry and elsewhere. She is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Arizona State University.