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Jamaica’s seashores, mild Rastas and uplifting reggae music make up the postcard model of an idyllic island nation – a picture Safiya Sinclair says she needed to flesh out in her compelling memoir “Methods to Say Babylon”. The creator recounts a childhood spent observing tropical fauna and flora and studying poetry, removed from vacationer inns and the bustling road lifetime of the Jamaican capital. She joins us to debate the double normal for Rastafari girls and boys, the symbolic that means of chopping off her dreadlocks and the hidden literary abilities of a mom who impressed her private {and professional} journey.