Canada

“I only lived in Canada from 1963 until 1983, a mere twenty years. I have now lived outside of Canada for thirty-three years. I have indelible memories of my Canadian life, and since my departure I have been doing my best to keep track of my beloved country. My Canadian-ness affects every aspect of my being. My American friends once accused me of enjoying being Canadian. Guilty as charged.”—Mike Myers, from the Introduction

Mike Myers, the man behind some of the most memorable comic characters of our time, has often made winking allusions to Canada in his outrageously accomplished body of work—but now he turns the spotlight on full-beam.

Canada is Mike Myers’s insightful, frequently hilarious, and wholly subjective analysis of what makes Canada Canada, Canadians Canadians, and what being Canadian has always meant to him. It is both a memoir of a Canadian at home and abroad, and a wildly autobiographical investigation of a nation.

A true patriot who happens to be an expatriate, Myers is in a unique position to explain Canada from within and without. His literary debut brings his love of Canada to the fore at a time when the country is once again looking ahead with hope and national pride.