It begins with a quote from Arthur Miller: “It doesn’t exist, America. It’s a name you give to an abstract idea.” Antonio Monda, author of the novel L’America Non Esiste [America Does Not Exist] has lived in New York since the early ‘90s and today is a successful writer and professor at New York University. His book describes an America that unites and divides, an imaginary America, one imagined by each of us, written in lively and compelling prose.