An award-winning photojournalist and social documentarian, Arthur Grace has travelled to every region of America on assignment for major news organisations and for his own projects since the early 1970s. Organised into thematic chapters, the book plumbs America’s cultural DNA. Fusing the physical proximity of a photojournalist with the conceptual distance and healthy scepticism of an artist, his pictures speak to themes that resonate with the American experience over the past half century, revealing the familiar and curious rituals of American life.