Growing mighty: How a Jamaican author created a freer life
by Barbara Spindel
Nov 29, 2023
2 minutes
At the outset of her searing memoir, “How to Say Babylon,” Safiya Sinclair writes that her upbringing in a strict Rastafarian household in Montego Bay, Jamaica, involved “[watching] the men in my family grow mighty while the women shrunk.” But Sinclair, an acclaimed poet, had too much fire and ambition to shrink. In lyrical prose,
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