Sand for Snow: A Caribbean-Canadian Chronicle

by Robert Edison Sandiford

Robert Edison Sandiford moved from Canada to his parents' native Barbados in 1996. He went for 'wife and work '-his new bride was a Bajan, and he had landed an editor's position at the leading daily newspaper. Yet his journey 'Back Home' also led to a series of insightful and often poignant meditations on relationships, island life, and the decline of his father, diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease twelve years earlier.

188 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2003

About the author

Robert Edison Sandiford is the author of three short story collections, Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall, The Tree of Youth and Intimacy 101: Rooms & Suites; the graphic novels Attractive Forces, Stray Moonbeams and Great Moves; a travel memoir, Sand for Snow: A Caribbean-Canadian Chronicle; the novel And Sometimes They Fly; and edited with Linda M. Deane Shouts from the Outfield: The ArtsEtc Cricket Anthology and Green Readings: Barbados, The First Five Years (2008-2012). He is a founding editor of ArtsEtc: The Premier Cultural Guide to Barbados (artsetcbarbados.com), and has worked as a journalist, book publisher, video producer with Warm Water Productions, and teacher. He has won awards for both his writing and editing, including Barbados’ Governor General’s Award of Excellence in Literary Arts and the Harold Hoyte Award, and been shortlisted for the Frank Collymore Literary Award. He still divides his time between Canada and Barbados.