16 Wayne Grady and Merilyn Simonds
Take a loving, slightly jaded pair of married writers, put them in a small car, point them south, and you get
Breakfast at the Exit Café: Travels Through America, a unique take on our super size neighbour. The reader rides along in that small car
as Grady and Simonds give us a mostly objective, but sometimes wholly subjective look at America, Americans and Americanism. We get a good
look at our tour guides and their relationship, too. One thing they did discover during their two-month, 15,000-km odyssey is that Americans are
curiously uncurious about Canada and Canadians. They also had trouble finding decent hash browns.
Wayne Grady is a highly respected science writer, the author of 11 books of non-fiction and a Governor General’s Award-winning translator.
Merilyn Simonds has written 14 books including The Holding, a New York Times Editor’s Choice, and The Convict Lover,
a finalist for the Governor General’s Award. Her new book, A New Leaf, uses the garden as its central muse.
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