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Madinah Girl is the first novel by Trinidad born writer Anna Levi. The book introduces the female character Maria as an acutely intelligent but disturbed mid – teenager who abandons her home because of family indifference and the tyrannical control of an obeah man/Spiritual Baptist father and an acquiescent, defenceless religious mother.
As a streetwise explorer she encounters a series of experiences which exposes her to a world of pimps & prostitutes, random female violation by men, parental dictatorship, drug dealers, revolutionaries, hijackers,ccrooked policemen, racists and sexual predators & spiritual extortion. Embroiled in an abused victimised relationship. Maria is constantly running away from her manically abuser.
This first novel represents a broad can canvas of modern Trinidadian life and goes unchallenged as a unique exploration not just of an underworld culture but the teeming materialistic and cynical vicious culture of post-colonial survival in an oil rich spiritually lost society.
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