Armed only with an outsider s insight, a sense of humour and sturdy shoes, journalist and writer Avirook Sen sets out on a journey across America. It is the year of the Obama election, the recession has arrived, and change is on its way for America and the world. As he travels to places, both prominent and obscure, Sen finds stories at every stop: of the average Joe who feels the hand of history on his shoulder even as he goes about shaping it with his vote, of ...