Breakfast at the Exit Cafe Travels through America

Grady, Wayne. (Author). Simonds, Merilyn. (Added Author).

Summary: Part travelogue, part exploration-a road trip into the reality behind the cultural myth that is America. Breakfast at the Exit Cafe begins as a personal story-told in alternating voices by two travellers and writers-of a journey by car from British Columbia around the rim of the United States. It soon becomes a journey of exploration. For Grady, whose forebears were slaves who came to Canada in the 1880s, this is a journey through fear, racism, and violence into his own family roots. For Simonds, who grew up a lonely Canadian in the American School of Campinas, Brazil, it is a journey into the.

Record details

ISBN: 9781553656562 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1553656563 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
remote
1 online resource (321 p.)
Publisher: New York : Douglas & McIntyre, 2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Description based upon print version of record.
Formatted Contents Note:	Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; 1 / Megalopolis, Usa; 2 / Astoria; 3 / Highway 101; 4 / Eureka! California; 5 / Route 66; 6 / Grand Canyon, Arizona; 7 / The Marriage Road; 8 / Escalante, Utah; 9 / El Camino Real; 10 / Jefferson, Texas; 11 / Selmalabama; 12 / Athens, Georgia; 13 / The Outer Banks; 14 / The Exit Cafe; Acknowledgements.