How To Say Babylon

‘An electrifying memoir’Observer
‘A story about hope, imagination and resilience’ Guardian
‘Vivid and empowering’ Gillian Anderson, author of More
‘Heart-stoppingly gripping’ Bernardine Evaristo, author of Girl, Woman, Other
‘Dazzling’ Tara Westover, author of Educated
‘Glimmering … laced with poetic voice’TIME
‘One of the most gut-wrenchingly beautiful memoirs I’ve ever read … a must-read’ Liv Little, in Observer
‘A breathless, scorching memoir’New York Times Book Review
‘To read it is to believe that words can save’ Marlon James, author of The Disappearers
‘Electrifying’Spectator
‘Lushly observed’ Washington Post
‘Stirring’ Elle
‘Unforgettable, mesmerising, heartbreaking and heartwarming’ Elif Shafak, author of In One Brief Moment All Eternity
‘Powerful … moving’Evening Standard
‘Sinclair’s lush, lyrical language makes everything feel alive’ Raven Leilani, author of Luster
‘A memoir of liberation’Irish Times
‘Stunningly written’iNews
‘An instant contemporary Caribbean classic’ Monique Roffey, author of The Mermaid of Black Conch
‘Atmospheric and completely absorbing’ Diana Evans, author of Ordinary People
‘Essential’ Jesmyn Ward, author of Sing, Unburied, Sing
‘Gut-wrenching, soul-stirring, electrifying’ Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Black Gold
‘Immersive, imagistic, honest’ Raymond Antrobus, author of The Quiet Ear
‘Destined to become a feminist classic’ Lisa Allen-Agostini, author of The Bread the Devil Knead

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. 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.

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