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Following the fantastic success of his best-selling memoir, Where I Belong, Great Big Sea leading man Alan Doyle profits with a amusing, heartwarming profile of going out of Newfoundland and obtaining Canada for the first time. Armed with the same personable, candid style within his first e book, Alan Doyle transforms his point of view outward from Petty Harbour toward mainland Canada, reflecting on what it was like to venture from the comforts of home and the familiarity of the island. Often in a van, sometimes in a bus, sometimes in a car with destroyed wipers "using Bob's belt and a rope found by Paddy's Fish pond" to pull them back and forth, Alan and his bandmates charted new place, and he constantly assessed what he found of the huge country against what his forefathers once called the Daemon Canada. In an interval punctuated by triumphant leaps ahead for the band, deflating steps backward, and everything in between - opening for Barney the Dinosaur at an outdoor music happening, being propositioned at a gas train station mail-order bride service in Alberta, sipping moonshine with an seniors churchgoer on the Sunday day in PEI - Alan's few founded notions about Canada were often debunked, and his own id as a Newfoundlander was constantly challenged. Touring the country, he also discovered how others view Newfoundlanders and exactly how skewed these images can sometimes be. Asked to play in front of the queen at an enormous Canada Day happening on Parliament Hill, the concert organizers promised Alan and his bandmates that the ultimate way to showcase Newfoundland culture was for them to be towed onto level in a dory and introduced not as Newfoundlanders but as "Newfies". The boys weren't amused. Heartfelt, funny, and always insightful, these testimonies tap into the complexities of community and Canadianness, building the family portrait of a young man from a little fishing village seeking to define and retain his sense of home while navigating an enormous and diverse and wonder-filled country.
