Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall: Stories

by Robert Edison Sandiford

The four stories that make up Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall begin The Chronicles of The Cumberbatch Family: their arrival in Canada from Barbados, their decision to settle on the Island of Montreal and the times they've known since.

These events are largely seen through the eyes of their Canadian-born children, who experience the subtle shifts between the present and the past, new homes and old ones, like the ever changing seasons.

Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall is the first work of fiction to deal with the concerns, fears and aspirations of the offspring of West Indian immigrants living in the province of Quebec by a member of that generation.

100 pages, Paperback

Published May 7, 1999

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.