Safiya Sinclair says her memoir, "How to Say Babylon," chosen Read With Jenna's October 2023 pick, is a book about a woman on the "precipice of her existence."
In the book, Sinclair charts her path out of a restrictive household, where her Rastafari father imposed strict beliefs about how women were supposed to be, especially about how she and her sisters were supposed to be.
Sinclair says she was faced with a decision: “Either stay within that life and accept the fate and the future that my father imagined for me, or define my womanhood on my own terms. To choose what kind of woman I wanted to be for myself,” she said.
“This book is my journey to forging my own sense of place in the world and learning to celebrate my womanhood as a gift instead of being diminished by it,” she continues.
Speaking to TODAY, Jenna compares it the riveting memoir "Educated."
If you haven't already read "How to Say Babylon," you can read an excerpt here. And if you have read "How to Say Babylon," then you can check out one of these recommendations from Sinclair (or all of them).
