Praise for True North, Down South

"Rich with insights, humor, and wisdom, True North, Down South gently draws readers across borders of language, culture, politics, and technology. With a genial, gregarious empathy, David Wayne Stewart becomes a deft guide around a continent uneasily shared by diverse Canadians and Americans. A pleasure to read, like a day spent with a new best friend, True North, Down South gradually percolates a deeper wisdom about our very human dilemmas." —Alan Taylor, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies

"For any wandering Canadian, this open-hearted account of one expat's experience in America will be excellent company. But what enlarges and deepens David Wayne Stewart's memoir is the extended dive he takes into how we carry where we're from. Cutting through familiar tropes about Canada and the U.S. …, he probes the ways a home country continues to shape us over decades, and how these patterns can become even more complex with time, affecting our closest relationships and showing up in our children in unexpected ways." —Julie Bruck, Canadian-American poet and Winner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry for Monkey Ranch

"From coming-of-age experiences to leaving the next generation with the mindset and tools for better understanding Canadian and American connections and disparities, David Wayne Stewart provides far more than a memoir here." —Midwest Book Review

"David Wayne Stewart's experiences with and explorations of national identity, especially those personal and professional vignettes situated in the United States, provide a singularly valuable lens into what being Canadian means. This timely collection of entertaining, informative, and heartfelt stories conveys a compelling intimacy so often missing from academic treatments. True North, Down South reverberates with energy and passion for Canada. An absorbing read!" —Christopher Kirkey, director of the Center for the Study of Canada and the Institute on Québec Studies at the SUNY College of Plattsburgh

"As a fellow Canadian expat, I found reading David Wayne Stewart's collection of memoir essays to be one of my most enjoyable activities this year... In tones ranging from joyful to reflective, Stewart manages to showcase Canada's many dualities, hilarities, and challenges that distinguish the Canadian people and society from its southern neighbors…A true gem." —Christina Keppie, director of the Center of Canadian-American Studies at Western Washington University

"An exceedingly intelligent series of recollections related in light, lucid prose." —Kirkus Reviews