In the West, finally something new: the truth about America. Büchner Prize winner Felicitas Hoppe embarks on an expedition through an unknown America. Traveling ten thousand miles as comical as they are highly poetic, Hoppe journeys from Boston to San Francisco, then to Los Angeles, and back to New York. Wide awake and with keen insight, she sets off as a literary whirlwind in the footsteps of Ilf and Petrow, two Russian writers who traveled 80 years before her and became cult figures. Whether Hoppe visits the Ford factories and the first electric chair, paints the fence of Tom Sawyer on the side, disappears in a tornado, or meets Quentin Tarantino in the eye of the storm - "Prawda" (Russian for truth) allows readers to see things that have never been written about the most incredible country on Earth: a literary exploration of the world.