The saucy fifteen-year-old Ciera Ansley has just won another prestigious piano competition and is on her way home to Scotland when catastrophe strikes. Her plane from Boston crashes and Ciera wakes to find herself in a terrifying new world. Now with Liam Burwood, the only other survivor by her side, they both must learn to work together as they wade through the tumults of war and love, as they confront their darkest selves, in order to find a way home. With both, Ciera and Liam knowing full well that if they fail in their journey, if they submit to their sorrow and despair, their souls will be forever lost to this treacherous new world...
What does it mean to be an American? In Europe and elsewhere, it has been the prolonged association between the populous and the land that has constructed national identities. In Scotland there are Scots, in Poland there Poles, in Switzerland, there are the Swiss, and in India there are Indians, but in the United States whose population is overwhelmingly descendants from other parts of the globe, the logic of geographic national identity does not quite suffice. So how then is identity constructed? The essay, American Psychosis, is divided into three distinct sections, with each building on the latter. The first section is a rudimentary but necessary examination of American History which focuses specifically on two supposedly quintessential aspects of American History: American Exceptionalism and Manifest Destiny. The central pages then attempt to unravel the source and nature of American National Identity by deconstructing the prior examination of American Exceptionalism and Manifest Destiny and through the deconstruction exposing America's inborn cultural dissonance. The final section deals with the contemporary conflicts between American National Identity and the ongoing processes of Globalization, and how these social conflicts further exasperate America's Cultural Dissonance.
