Put two writers in a car for a couple of months and what do you get? Breakfast at the Exit Café, the story of a trip around the rim of America, against the tide of history and literature, on roads travelled by Steinbeck, Kerouac, Trollope, and Simone de Beauvoir.
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A 2010 Globe 100 Book
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…a seamless travel collage, Breakfast at the Exit Cafe flows as easily as a new car on an empty highway.
—Madonna Hamel, Globe & Mail, Saturday, October 22, 2010.
Like the great travel writers before them, Grady and Simonds entertain and enlighten in a foreign yet familiar world—a brilliant road trip I didn’t want to end.
—Joseph Boyden, author of Three Day Road
A delightful travel memoir—big-hearted, smart, intimate, funny and wise. A trip well worth taking.
—Sandra Gulland, author of Mistress of the Sun
A fascinating portrait of a country from the outside and a marriage from the inside.
—Linda Spalding, author of The Follow
Grady and Simonds bring their well-honed cultural and literary sensibilities to bear on a revealing road trip through our southern neighbour.
—Ronald Wright, author of What is America?
Two writers, in a car, in search of history, identity, stories, a little R&R and the perfect hash-browns. It’s Kerouac for Baby Boomers. It’s Breakfast at the Exit Cafe.
—Lisa Robertson
I have just devoured, and savored, Breakfast at the Exit Cafe. What a wonderfully satisfying read!
—Lynette Loeppky
