A smart and sharply funny novel about one Canadian family’s hilarious crime romp through the 51st State.
It’s been a tough two years since Canada’s annexation – sorry, “unification” – with the United States. Just ask real estate journalist Doug Vandermeer, his art teacher wife Jodee, and their sixteen-year-old son, Logan. The Vandermeers are only one missed mortgage payment away from losing their suburban home in St. Catharines, North North America, USA.
Americans are moving into the neighbourhood in droves, but the friendliest among them offer good money for Doug’s homegrown weed (which is illegal again) and Jodee’s photorealistic paintings of Shania Twain. Could selling cannabis and Canadiana to wealthy Americans be the answer to Doug and Jodee’s financial woes?
The Vandermeers’ one big score – the heist of a Group of Seven painting – accidentally lands them in the middle of the bad romance between the boho billionaire US president and her ex, the hunky former prime minister of Canada. While Doug, Jodee and Logan only meant to steal themselves a future, now they hold the fate of a broken nation in their hands.
Part political satire, part adventure novel — all heart and humour — North North America is a hilarious and triumphant tale about living in dark times.