If I Had the Wings
About the book
Stories about family, growing up and queer lives within a Greek-Bahamian community.
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Helen Klonaris’s stories and Marion Bethel’s poems offer different approaches to Bahamian everyday life and belonging. Strachan moves beyond the tourist façade to a childhood in a poor district. Glinton-Meicholas offers both folklore-based stories and a novel about childhood, family and social change. Start with the short tales of An Evening in Guanima, then turn to God’s Angry Babies.
WHERE TO START
- If I Had the WingsHelen Klonaris
- Bougainvillea RingplayMarion Bethel
- God’s Angry BabiesIan G. Strachan
Books to begin with
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Bougainvillea Ringplay
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These poems bring Bahamian speech into questions of gender, social power and belonging.
God’s Angry Babies
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Tree and his brothers grow up in a poor district of a fictional Caribbean island, beyond the hotel tourists’ view.
An Evening in Guanima
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These stories draw on traditional Bahamian folktale motifs and oral storytelling.
A Shift in the Light
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This semi-autobiographical novel recalls two girls’ childhood with grandparents on a rural Bahamian island amid changes associated with decolonisation.
Guanahani, My Love
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Poems about the Bahamas, colonial history, family and the tensions beneath tourist paradise.
Lent / Elegies
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A short poetry collection written after the death of the poet’s mother, tracing grief, memory and the daily experience of loss.
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