Robert Edison Sandiford moved from Canada to his parentsi native
Barbados in 1996. He went for iwife and worki o his new bride was a
Bajan, and he had landed an editoris position at the leading daily
newspaper. Yet his journey eBack Homei also led to a series of
insightful and often poignant meditations on relationships, island
life, and the decline of his father, diagnosed with Alzheimeris
disease twelve years earlier. iComing out of the Caribbean as these
stories did, they could not have been written in any other time or
place, i 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
iThis unpretentious, charming book reminds us of the power of
observationoand of reflectionoclearly articulated. i
oHalifax Sunday Herald, Dec. 2004
ioThe 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 o albeit
regardless of the fact that they have failed him o to Barbados] the
country of his parents' birth, a country he knows only from visits
and stories.i
oGroove, 2004
iRaised 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.i
oH. Nigel Thomas, Montreal Community Contact, 2004
iThis 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....i
oRicky Jordan
iIn 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.i oMcGill News, Summer 2004iSandifordis strength lies
in provocative profiles.... i oMontreal Gazette, 2004iMigration 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. i oCaribbean Beat, Jul/Aug 2004
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