Fiction. A highly original novel of generations colliding in the ever-changing global landcape. In a central park in Ottowa's Sandy Hill, Gabe, an immigrant from Guyana, explores the past in the company of his young Canadian-born daughter. Grounds shift as characters come to life, tropical and temperate zones merge, the past and present form intermittent shadows, as Gabe delves into his youth on a sugar plantation next to the Edenic Corentyne coast by the Atlantic Ocean. Colorful characters give density to Gabe's story growing up in an Indian family struggling to live traditionally in faraway Guyana, as Christian, Hindu, and Muslim worlds come together, continually presenting us with new realities, new awakenings.

Author City: Ottawa, ON CAN

Cyril Dabydeen is the editor of BEYOND SANGRE GRANDE: CARIBBEAN WRITING TODAY (TSAR Publications), A Shapely Fire: Changing the Literary Landscape (Mosaic Press), and ANOTHER WAY TO DANCE: CONTEMPORARY ASIAN POETRY FROM CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES (TSAR Publications). His work has appeared in the Oxford, Penguin and Heinemann Books of Caribbean Verse, and in over 60 literary magazines worldwide. A former Poet Laureate of Ottawa, his last novel DRUMS OF MY FLESH (TSAR Publications) won the Guyana Prize for Best Book of Fiction and was nominated for the prestigious IMPAC/Dublin Literary Prize. He is the recipient of the 2010 Guyana Lifetime Achievement Award. He teaches at the University of Ottawa.