Sweet Like Saltwater marks a brilliant, highly original fiction debut. These stories “about a fanatical cricket supporter in rural colonial Guyana, an immigrant girl on the run on a Canadian backroad, a terrifying aquatic encounter in a faraway planetary colony of the future, a meeting of former neighbours on the banks of the Hudson ... probe with acuity and a wry sense of humour the very modern condition of human exile and the search for freedom and belonging.

"...quirky and engaging... at its satirical best it is amusing and incisive..." - The Globe and Mail

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Raywat Deonandan's short stories have appeared in several countries, including Canada the United States, England and China. He was won two Hart House Literary Prizes and First Prize in the 1995 Canadian Author's Association National Student Short Story Contest. His interests include karate (in which he has a black belt), biotechnology, space exploration, and ancient history. This is his first book of fiction.
Of Indian ancestry, Guyanese origin and Canadian citizenship, Deonandan now makes Toronto his home.

“eonandan” prose is quirky and engaging?at its satirical best it is amusing and incisive” “The Globe and MailReviews: Those Who Eat the Cascadura?elvon writes with great charm and a fresh earthy naivete...??ew York Times” simple, lyrical, moving writer.??ew Statesman?e is excellent at conveying the heady mixture of excitement and apathy that characterize Trinidad.” “unday Times” master yarn spinner.” “he Globe and Mail