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.

Sand for Snow: A Caribbean-Canadian Chronicle

Literature & Fiction

Sandiford, Robert Edison

History & Criticism

Dc Books

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 editors 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 Alzheimers disease twelve years earlier. Coming out of the Caribbean as these stories did, they could not have been written in any other time or place, says Sandiford in the Preface. Part travelogue, part memoir, Sand for Snow: A Caribbean-Canadian Chronicle is a thoughtful, revealing, and often humorous trip to a most unexpected destination.Praise for Sand for Snow This unpretentious, charming book reminds us of the power of observationand of reflectionclearly articulated. Halifax Sunday Herald, Dec. 2004The book for me changed almost immediately into the classical immigration story, where it takes an incredible leap of faith (and not lunacy) to leave the known for the unknown: the familiarity of the country of his birth and the support systems albeit regardless of the fact that they have failed him to [Barbados] the country of his parents' birth, a country he knows only from visits and stories.Groove, 2004Raised with a dual sensibility, Sandiford is able to see Barbadian society with unfamiliar, unglazed eyes, and report with frank yet discreet honesty its strengths and failings.H. Nigel Thomas, Montreal Community Contact, 2004This book...makes me wish that I'd been much closer to my father. It makes me wish that he'd always been there for me or that I could have been there for him....Ricky JordanIn his new environment, Sandiford ponders what it means to be Bajan, and what it means to be Canadian, and how best to reconcile the two within himself.... What follows is part travelogue, part memoir, and an entertaining critique and celebration of island life and city life. McGill News, Summer 2004Sandifords strength lies in provocative profiles.... Montreal Gazette, 2004Migration is one of the great themes of Caribbean writing.... But few narratives describe attempts by descendents of these 20th-century emigrants to return to the Caribbean of their parents. Sand for Snow is a thoughtful, modest, and quietly moving exploration of that reverse voyage. Caribbean Beat, Jul/Aug 2004

Travel

Canada

You're at a party and your eyes meet, attraction is instant, so hot, the adrenaline spreading throughout your body, the need to explore that connection immediate... Three erotic stories intelligently but intensely exploring black and inter-racial relationships.

Attractive Forces

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Eurotica

Three engrossing and salacious stories. In the title story, a traveler in a bar is accosted by a very horny young woman who bewitches him with unseen circumstances! Then, a photographer is asked by her best friends to tape them having sex-only to have the camera turned on her. Finally, as he lies dying, an old woman reflects on the passionate life she has led with her husband.
From a variety of female viewpoints, Great Moves by Robert Edison Sandiford and Geof Isherwood, tells the stories of Caribbean people in love and lust.

Great Moves

NBM Publishing

The disasters of 9/11 trigger a Cataclysm that is unleashed every so many cycles. It can only be averted by the selfless act of the Elect, a trio of exceptional humans who are guided by Milton, a being known as an Elder. The three, all Barbadians, are David Rayside, Marsha Durant and Franck Hurley. And it is their time: to save the world before the deadliest characters of their legends and myths - the baccou, the steel donkey, la djables, and the heart man - destroy it.... 
 All their lives, the Elect have had their abilities: David, the power of flight; Marsha, incredible strength; and Franck, super speed. With great power may come great responsibility, yet the choice to act or not remains theirs. Milton, like his adversary, Mackie (short for Machiavelli), is an Elder who can inform, not influence, the course of events. Are the Elect mature enough to decide what's best for humanity? The longer they take to agree to Milton's plan, which he can't reveal until they are all on board, the more their world is overrun with Caribbean folklore creatures.... 
 Set in Bridgetown and Montreal ('where much of the Diaspora live'), And Sometimes They Fly questions notions of the heroic. Where do heroes - a region's but also a culture's heroes - come from? George Woodcock once noted that, unlike Americans or the British, 'Canadians do not like heroes, and so they do not have them.' Humanity is in trouble if this is also true about Barbadians.

And Sometimes They Fly

Literary

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Sand for Snow: A Caribbean-Canadian Chronicle

Sand for Snow: A Caribbean-Canadian Chronicle

Attractive Forces

Great Moves

And Sometimes They Fly