God's Angry Babies [a novel]

This coming-of-age novel by the accomplished Bahamian writer Ian G. Strachan traces the life of Tree Bodie as he grows up in the Yellow and White House and the nameless streets of Pompey Village, far (though not in distance) from the sanitized world of Santa Maria's luxury hotels.

Against the backdrop of the internal struggles of a Caribbean island nation, Strachan tells the story of Tree's adventures (and misadventures) "backadabush," his joys and pains, the conflicts within his family, and his ambivalent involvement in Santa Marian politics. Sometimes in Strachan's own voice, sometimes in Tree's, and often as seen by the iron-willed Maureen Bodie (Tree's mother), the air, the scenes, even the language of Pompey Village—and the triumphs and disasters of the people who live there—become palpable.