The Setting:
Brooklyn, September 2010

Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream is blaring out of every speaker, providing much-needed distraction in the aftermath of the economic meltdown. The unemployment rate is north of nine percent, the housing market in shambles. Our nation is at war. Operation Iraqi Freedom has been raging for seven-and-a-half years, Operation Enduring Freedom for nine. No one’s planning victory parades anytime soon. Meanwhile, he who must not be named is sipping mint tea lattes in Abbottabad.