Ian G. Strachan

God's Angry Babies is a powerful novel. It centres around Tree, a young man due to leave his native Santa Maria (a fictionalised Bahamas) to study in the US, for which he needs a government scholarship. Ian G. Strachan uses Tree's predicament to explore the changing attitudes of Bahamaians in the years following independence. The novel is set around an election, and the problems of democracies in nations where corruption is the norm is an important theme. He has some interesting female characters (notably Tree's mother), as well as exploring how a nation which doesn't really know its roots finds its identity. I found it a fascinating read and would thoroughly recommend it.… (meer)