A Latina writer, Sandy Florian is the author of five books and one chapbook. Her latest book, Boxing the Compass, is published by Noemi Press in collaboration with Letras Latinas. Her critical work appears in Drunken Boat, Montevidayo, and HTML Giant. Most recently, Florian was Visiting Assistant Professor at West Virginia University where she taught Contemporary African Literature, Nonwestern Literature and Creative Writing.
Search Sweet Country opens with the town fool Beni Baidoo sitting in the bush near the beach listening to the “language of the sea” that “spoke in shells that he could understand.”…