How to say Babylon : a memoir

Sinclair, Safiya, author.

First 37Ink/Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Book

New York : 37Ink/Simon & Schuster, 2023.

©2023

x, 335 pages ; 24 cm.

"The ... story of the author's struggle to break free of her repressive Rastafari upbringing, ruled by her father's rigid patriarchal views, to find her own voice as a woman"--Dust jacket flap.

Sinclair, Safiya.

Women poets -- Biography.

Women college teachers -- United States -- Biography.

Women college teachers, Black -- Biography.

Rastafarians -- Biography.

Jamaicans -- Biography.

Fathers and daughters.

Women, Black -- Biography.

Grayslake (Ill.) -- BIPOC author.

Grayslake (Ill.) -- BIPOC subject.

Grayslake (Ill.) -- Own voices.

Palatine (Ill.) -- BIPOC author.

Palatine (Ill.) -- BIPOC subject.

Palatine (Ill.) -- Own voices.

Autobiographies.

Author's note -- Prologue -- Budgerigar. The man who would be god -- Domain of the marvelous -- Fisherman's daughter -- Unclean women -- Bettah must come -- Revelations -- As the twig is bent -- Chicken merry hawk -- Hydra -- Age of wonder -- Moth in amber -- Medusa. My Eurydice -- The red belt -- False idol -- Book of Esther -- Not Hollywood -- Through the fire -- Silver -- Lionheart. Galatea -- Dance of Salome -- Leaving Sequestra -- Coven -- Jezebel -- Harbinger of Babylon -- Mermaid. Daughter of Lilith -- The red door -- Iphigenia -- Jumbie bird -- I woman.

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