Abstract

Sand/Snow is a mixed-genre novella that incorporates conventional prosaic structures, with Iranian poetic structure, and romantic vocabulary. Themes of cultural transgression, loss, and intergenerational trauma permeate this work, meant to demonstrate the difficulties of immigration and integration. This novella follows the lives of a small family of Iranians who move to Canada during the Iran-Iraq War. Struggling to find a place in the present, the microcosm of their family life is shattered when the youngest child of the family commits suicide.