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“Part family road trip, part reconnaissance mission into the heart of America. A wonderful read!” -- Stewart &#8220Brittlestar&#8221 Reynolds, author of <i>Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism</i> “A fascinating journey through the looking glass into that torqued version of Canada we call the United States. A meditation on family and aging disguised as a road trip, this is Bill Gaston at his freewheeling best.” -- Will Ferguson, author of <i>Meanwhile, Back in Nokomis</i> “Spying on America is a fascinating road trip in a muscle car, a family quest to visit a tiny Iowa town founded by Bill Gaston’s ancestors as a western hub of the Underground Railway. The father and son story zigzags through Buddhism and Trumpism, bad karoake and very good Mexican food, finding kindred souls and Red State epiphanies fuelled by Dog Slobber ale.” -- Mark Anthony Jarman, author of <i>Burn Man</i>

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Bill Gaston was born in Tacoma, Washington, and grew up in Canada, becoming a Canadian citizen as a teenager to avoid being drafted into the Vietnam War. He has lived and worked, mostly as an itinerant scholar, all across Canada, in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Toronto, Vancouver and, finally, Victoria. Gaston is the author of numerous books of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, including The World, winner of the Ethel Wilson Prize for Fiction; Gargoyles, winner of the Victoria Book Prize and finalist for a Governor General’s Award; Mount Appetite, finalist for the Giller Prize; and the memoir Just Let Me Look at You, finalist for the RBC Taylor Prize. He lives, grows food, and writes, with the writer Dede Crane, on Gabriola Island, in the Salish Sea.

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